I almost bought a Dell laptop, and that was the deciding factor that made me get a PowerBook. Yeah, I had to pay the Apple tax, but somehow that's different. At least I'm actually using OSX.
Just because it's there, does not mean it's there for the taking. If you need the extra bandwidth, don't steal it. Buy it.
Fair enough. It seems that if I wanted to double my upstream though, it shouldn't cost more than double what I pay for "home" service, especially considering I wouldn't be getting any additional downstream bandwidth. I'm not unwilling to pay for it, but I am unwilling to pay what they're charging. I don't uncap, I just come on slashdot and bitch about the price of cable service.
At least from Time-Warner, the "Business" class cable is a complete ripoff for what you get in addition to the "home" service. For instance, I feel what Speakeasy charges for 3.0/768 is reasonable ($100/month). Unfortunately, Speakeasy doesn't offer service here, so refer to the previous paragraph regarding bitching about cable.
This is part of a broader trend that really pisses me off, which is "Home" being sort of a codeword for the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel shit for the lowest common denominator. How many of you who use Windows use "XP Home" at home? The same goes for Dell, when I went to look at buying a laptop on dell.com, if you look at "Home" they only have the lowest-end laptops listed. I had to go to "Small Business" to see the good ones, which are certainly not "too powerful" for home use.
(An exception to this, I bought a "business" computer in 1996, which actually was - it was FCC Class A. I never got any complaints from neighbors, though.:)
I don't think it's inconceivable that someone doesn't want good hardware or service just because they're not at work.
If you need huge, dedicated bandwidth, I'd say buy a T-1 line, or pay for a business-class account.
Do you actually think they run another line for a business-class account? You just get a bigger piece of the pie. Really, i'm satisfied with the downstream I get, but I'd really like to be able to raise my upstream. They always say "People use more downstream than upstream", but if that's the case, why do they need to cap it so low? Sure, for browsing webpages, but for remote access to my home machine, it sucks ass.
I'm going to graduate school at UR next semester. I had been using RIAA radar to make sure I wasn't giving the RIAA any money, but I guess that's pretty much pointless now, isn't it.
Honestly, i'm pretty offended by having to pay for this. Same as having to pay for Windows and Office because my college had a site license. They don't give away free textbooks, and textbooks can cost as much or more than those, so let the people who want this crap pay for it.
At least Windows/Office can be construed to have some academic purpose.
If people were interested in Gaston Julia, it wouldn't be a problem. No, everyone wanted to look at the trippy 2MB jpeg on some backwater academic site in Australia.
What's your reason? I've done the same in the past, but just because I could. I couldn't really find a reason I 'needed' to run one.
OK. Well, I've never "needed" to run one, any more than I "need" email to begin with. I run my SMTP server because it allows me to receive mail under multiple names for different purposes, do my own spam filtering, consolidate accounts, etc. I definitely "need" incoming SMTP, as much as I use an email address to give to my friends may not be appropriate for say, a business contact. Also, I just don't like my ISP's email implementation. They only support POP, and maybe I just don't like my email sitting on their server for any moron employee of TW to read.
Maybe I'm just an idiot, but I didn't think I was running an open relay either. I tested it with some of the open-relay test webpages, but it turns out that Postfix was allowing relaying from the local/24 subnet on my ISP (which none of the tests would have shown), and it just happened that someone on the subnet noticed.
"Well before the end of the century, there will be no people on the battlefield," said Robert Finkelstein, a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Management and Technology.
Yeah, no white people, anyway. From what I see, the countries that the US is picking fights with lately are far behind us in robotic weapons technology. Unless this is a sign that we're about to invade Japan, but their armies of laser-eyed Aibos will surely defeat us.
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
Besides, a lot of smaller sites won't even work with the IP address, since they're being vhosted, they depend on you using the actual hostname, which is passed by the browser.
Something like a business or government that is looking to do something?
The local government is doing a "study" here about building a road for $8 million or something like that. That's $8 million just for the study, regardless of whether we even build the road or not. I have to believe that the governments of Munich and so forth have done these sort of studies, and we all know what they came up with.
My guess it isn't something that will allow you to connect to any of the various sites that have free TV listings, rather than paying $13 a month for it.
Personally, I don't have a Tivo, or even digital cable. I've seen the PVR that the local cable company (Time Warner) offers, and it's absolutely useless.
Although, having used it, the most useful thing I could think of doing with it would be to allow configuration of the program guide to reorder/eliminate channels from the list, and have the stations listed in order of time spent viewing them.
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"We allow images of consensual sex in our cinemas, but not images of bestiality or child abuse. Why should the net be any different?"
"Freddy Got Fingered" contained images of bestiality. I know there are tons of movies with images of child abuse.
As for real-life bestiality or child abuse, there are already laws for that.
I just didn't want to pay the "mircosoft tax".
I almost bought a Dell laptop, and that was the deciding factor that made me get a PowerBook. Yeah, I had to pay the Apple tax, but somehow that's different. At least I'm actually using OSX.
Just because it's there, does not mean it's there for the taking. If you need the extra bandwidth, don't steal it. Buy it.
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Fair enough. It seems that if I wanted to double my upstream though, it shouldn't cost more than double what I pay for "home" service, especially considering I wouldn't be getting any additional downstream bandwidth. I'm not unwilling to pay for it, but I am unwilling to pay what they're charging. I don't uncap, I just come on slashdot and bitch about the price of cable service.
At least from Time-Warner, the "Business" class cable is a complete ripoff for what you get in addition to the "home" service. For instance, I feel what Speakeasy charges for 3.0/768 is reasonable ($100/month). Unfortunately, Speakeasy doesn't offer service here, so refer to the previous paragraph regarding bitching about cable.
This is part of a broader trend that really pisses me off, which is "Home" being sort of a codeword for the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel shit for the lowest common denominator. How many of you who use Windows use "XP Home" at home? The same goes for Dell, when I went to look at buying a laptop on dell.com, if you look at "Home" they only have the lowest-end laptops listed. I had to go to "Small Business" to see the good ones, which are certainly not "too powerful" for home use.
(An exception to this, I bought a "business" computer in 1996, which actually was - it was FCC Class A. I never got any complaints from neighbors, though.
I don't think it's inconceivable that someone doesn't want good hardware or service just because they're not at work.
I'm unemployed.
If you need huge, dedicated bandwidth, I'd say buy a T-1 line, or pay for a business-class account.
Do you actually think they run another line for a business-class account? You just get a bigger piece of the pie. Really, i'm satisfied with the downstream I get, but I'd really like to be able to raise my upstream. They always say "People use more downstream than upstream", but if that's the case, why do they need to cap it so low? Sure, for browsing webpages, but for remote access to my home machine, it sucks ass.
I'm going to graduate school at UR next semester. I had been using RIAA radar to make sure I wasn't giving the RIAA any money, but I guess that's pretty much pointless now, isn't it.
Honestly, i'm pretty offended by having to pay for this. Same as having to pay for Windows and Office because my college had a site license. They don't give away free textbooks, and textbooks can cost as much or more than those, so let the people who want this crap pay for it.
At least Windows/Office can be construed to have some academic purpose.
If people were interested in Gaston Julia, it wouldn't be a problem. No, everyone wanted to look at the trippy 2MB jpeg on some backwater academic site in Australia.
You'd think that new Bayesian filters would take this into account and check for letter/number substitutions, etc.
Wow, that works a lot better than just reading the number off the front of the card!
How can a child be too young to see a nipple? Think about what the purpose of the nipple is for a second.
What's your reason? I've done the same in the past, but just because I could. I couldn't really find a reason I 'needed' to run one.
OK. Well, I've never "needed" to run one, any more than I "need" email to begin with. I run my SMTP server because it allows me to receive mail under multiple names for different purposes, do my own spam filtering, consolidate accounts, etc. I definitely "need" incoming SMTP, as much as I use an email address to give to my friends may not be appropriate for say, a business contact. Also, I just don't like my ISP's email implementation. They only support POP, and maybe I just don't like my email sitting on their server for any moron employee of TW to read.
Maybe I'm just an idiot, but I didn't think I was running an open relay either. I tested it with some of the open-relay test webpages, but it turns out that Postfix was allowing relaying from the local /24 subnet on my ISP (which none of the tests would have shown), and it just happened that someone on the subnet noticed.
"Well before the end of the century, there will be no people on the battlefield," said Robert Finkelstein, a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Management and Technology.
Yeah, no white people, anyway. From what I see, the countries that the US is picking fights with lately are far behind us in robotic weapons technology. Unless this is a sign that we're about to invade Japan, but their armies of laser-eyed Aibos will surely defeat us.
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
I'm sure you could find five people who would be willing to take a one-way trip. I would.
Besides, a lot of smaller sites won't even work with the IP address, since they're being vhosted, they depend on you using the actual hostname, which is passed by the browser.
ADD [adultadd.com] isn't a joke, it's a serious problem. Treat it as such.
What? Sorry, I wasn't paying attention.
Something like a business or government that is looking to do something?
The local government is doing a "study" here about building a road for $8 million or something like that. That's $8 million just for the study, regardless of whether we even build the road or not. I have to believe that the governments of Munich and so forth have done these sort of studies, and we all know what they came up with.
I went to UB right after they got the Cray Origin2000. All I ever saw anyone do with it was play a cheesy 3-D video game on it.
Five years from now, India will probably be outsourcing all their programming jobs to Iraq.
When have we ever been "buddies" with China?
Do you own any sort of manufactured product? Look at where it's made.
Khlal Kalash.
Look after the first page. She's taking off her clothes, just not all of them.
My guess it isn't something that will allow you to connect to any of the various sites that have free TV listings, rather than paying $13 a month for it.
Personally, I don't have a Tivo, or even digital cable. I've seen the PVR that the local cable company (Time Warner) offers, and it's absolutely useless.
Although, having used it, the most useful thing I could think of doing with it would be to allow configuration of the program guide to reorder/eliminate channels from the list, and have the stations listed in order of time spent viewing them.
In case you haven't heard, Microsoft charges for support on top of the actual price of the software license.