I think the old adage "never under estimate the bandwidth of a lorry load of backup tapes" applies in this situation.
Why on earth would anyone want to get their films like this when the cost of burning a DVD and sticking it in the post is orders of magnitude lower than pulling the same data over a domestic internet connection? What's a DVD cost to burn and post? A pound or so? And that gets you, what, 4GB? Well, to send that over a 25 pound per month 512kpbs ADSL line with a 50:1 contention ratio would cost nearly 40 quid!
We should be looking for more ways to use the throughput of the Post Office, not trying to port thier killer apps to an obviously unsuitable medium.
"If Joe Terrorist goes through and has never been fingerprinted before... Well woop de doo, when he flies a plane into a building, at least we'll know what his fingers looked like before they burnt up in the wreckage."
Why is everyone consistently missing the point that they fingerprint you when you get _off_ the plane.
Not when you get on.
And presumably not at all if you've flown it into a building.
Yes, currently books have a huge tactile advantage over electronic formats, but you seem to be missing the point. Once we have e-paper, we'll have the best of both worlds. E-paper doesn't mean we're going to be sitting around holding a single sheet and pointing at buttons to turn the next page, we'll have a whole book of it, able to display anything but navigable using the unbeatable flick system.
I think that no matter how small or efficent your reader is, it still won't be the same thing as paper. Electronic paper? Sounds like a good idea, but how do you turn the page?
Um, same way you always turn the page. It's paper.
What I'd like to see is an open distributed-computing platform which lets me bank the hours my computer puts in and then use them later (minus overhead and commission) if ever I need to run, say, a couple of months worth of computing in a few minutes. Seems a no-brainer... Any volunteers?
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Demarcation.
I'm sure this has been there for several years - in fact I saw it when I was in London and I've since emigrated!
But you could have emigrated yesterday.
How on earth did they get patents for a large vertical spud gun?
>Whatever company makes vending machines. I swear, I've lost so much to those things...
But they're from Sirius, are they not?
I don't think his tractor was actually in London
I don't think the poster actually thought it was.
...such as using VPN's rather than the internet...
Would that not be a just a PN?
I think the old adage "never under estimate the bandwidth of a lorry load of backup tapes" applies in this situation.
Why on earth would anyone want to get their films like this when the cost of burning a DVD and sticking it in the post is orders of magnitude lower than pulling the same data over a domestic internet connection? What's a DVD cost to burn and post? A pound or so? And that gets you, what, 4GB? Well, to send that over a 25 pound per month 512kpbs ADSL line with a 50:1 contention ratio would cost nearly 40 quid!
We should be looking for more ways to use the throughput of the Post Office, not trying to port thier killer apps to an obviously unsuitable medium.
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Developers, developers, developers.
Does anyone know what happens if you haven't got any fingers?
"If Joe Terrorist goes through and has never been fingerprinted before... Well woop de doo, when he flies a plane into a building, at least we'll know what his fingers looked like before they burnt up in the wreckage."
Why is everyone consistently missing the point that they fingerprint you when you get _off_ the plane.
Not when you get on.
And presumably not at all if you've flown it into a building.
No, you would say "That group are going to the shop."
Yes, currently books have a huge tactile advantage over electronic formats, but you seem to be missing the point. Once we have e-paper, we'll have the best of both worlds. E-paper doesn't mean we're going to be sitting around holding a single sheet and pointing at buttons to turn the next page, we'll have a whole book of it, able to display anything but navigable using the unbeatable flick system.
I think that no matter how small or efficent your reader is, it still won't be the same thing as paper. Electronic paper? Sounds like a good idea, but how do you turn the page?
Um, same way you always turn the page. It's paper.
What I'd like to see is an open distributed-computing platform which lets me bank the hours my computer puts in and then use them later (minus overhead and commission) if ever I need to run, say, a couple of months worth of computing in a few minutes. Seems a no-brainer... Any volunteers?