Personally, I think it's worth 80gb to have a certain percent of the web's content load instantly (and hopefully check for a new version of the page in the background afterward).
You forgot about families. My family of four shares a Netflix account. I don't watch every movie that comes by, but someone does. The throttles are a bit of a hassle for this type of usage, but all in all it's working quite well for us.
1. Set free space-resistant lichen on uninhabited nearby planet.
2. Wait several million years.
2. Return, explain the situation, and be worshipped as gods!
3. Profit!
oh shit...has this been done before??
wow dude..i've done every one of those in the past two weeks.
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perhaps not everyone at pixar was feeling particularly entrepreneurial. happy people with happy, secure jobs tend to be somewhat risk-adverse when it comes to striking out on their own.
I'd like to second this. I wasted quite a bit of my time searching for a bluetooth trackball for my media center computer. A mouse, even a wireless one, just doesn't work quite right on a coffee table.
you know what you're paying for? the cost of creating and delivering the product, plus a little extra. if bandwidth costs them more to distribute the product, the product is going to cost more accordingly. uploading is acting in your own interest*, and it is supporting the company that you hope can afford to provide you with cool shit in the future.
*assuming you're on a connection where unused bandwidth is "wasted", not paying $/byte.
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Personally, I think it's worth 80gb to have a certain percent of the web's content load instantly (and hopefully check for a new version of the page in the background afterward).
and here you are, blogging about bloggers who blog about blogging. way to lead by example!
In Soviet Russia, Kinkos works for YOU!
Sorry, i had to.
it is. :-/
Of course, waking up is optional and there are many adults who chose never to try it.
You forgot about families. My family of four shares a Netflix account. I don't watch every movie that comes by, but someone does. The throttles are a bit of a hassle for this type of usage, but all in all it's working quite well for us.
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172068&c id=14330409
i've set my servers to the task of seeding the torrent through the initial slashdotting, so make use of it. cheers!
--firefly
If they haven't, then maybe they should!
The people who buy and pay for LC5 aren't the ones using it for Bad Stuff (TM). Such a list would be useless anyway
That's because in Mexico they are known as brincadores.
-- relevant wikipedia article
or you could oh shit i forgot. uhh fuck i'm so high oh yeah point those domains to local mirrors yeah.
how can it be pink if it's invisible? how can it be invisible if it's pink?!
I guess they failed to secure the copyright in time on this newly invented language....I hear people are using it in Sweden now.
No it isn't.
1. Set free space-resistant lichen on uninhabited nearby planet. 2. Wait several million years. 2. Return, explain the situation, and be worshipped as gods! 3. Profit! oh shit...has this been done before??
oh noes! i just saw some geeky looking guys with laptops drive up and snag em.
wow dude..i've done every one of those in the past two weeks.
perhaps not everyone at pixar was feeling particularly entrepreneurial. happy people with happy, secure jobs tend to be somewhat risk-adverse when it comes to striking out on their own.
a chance.....to die for? *maniacal grin*
I'd like to second this. I wasted quite a bit of my time searching for a bluetooth trackball for my media center computer. A mouse, even a wireless one, just doesn't work quite right on a coffee table.
meanwhile, for digital cable users, our tv's have slowed down.
nope. i can IM your icq account from my aim account just fine.
...unless you built his operating system.
dude...pythons don't have any feet.
you know what you're paying for? the cost of creating and delivering the product, plus a little extra. if bandwidth costs them more to distribute the product, the product is going to cost more accordingly. uploading is acting in your own interest*, and it is supporting the company that you hope can afford to provide you with cool shit in the future.
*assuming you're on a connection where unused bandwidth is "wasted", not paying $/byte.