http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=154684&cid=129 71502 "These are followed by 36 days worth of motion pictures - God, Devil, space opera, trains, cars, helicopters, crashes, stage etc. This R6 is 75,000,000 years ago and this planet and Confederation."
also little followup and borrow some quotes from some threads at dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16625116 "Current docsis 1.1 systems can already deliver 34 Mbps downstream and 2 Mbps uptream. docsis 2.0 can already deliver 34 Mbps downstream and 10 Mbps upstream. docsis 3.0 hasn't been deployed yet of course and tests at 100 Mbps by bundling 3x34 Mbps. Basically, cable can ALREADY deliver a FIOS speed package, and they are doing just that (15/2) in many FIOS areas."
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15693667 "Correct, upload per unit is currently about 10 Mbit/s if you use docsis 2.0 - For docsis 1.x its lower, I think about 4 Mbit/s. Either way, on current technologies they can easily do 1 Mbit/s or 2 Mbit/s on the upload side without a whole lot of difficulties. It should also be noted that when the analog channels disappear from Cable TV in 2008, there is going to be more space available for use in data communications. The digital TV channels are on a much higher and different type of frequency."
As I remember also basically most cable companies skipped over DOCSIS 2.0 and just used the 1.1 upgrade. Adelphia though has widespread DOCSIS 2.0; which might mean in turn they may get 3.0 a little later than the rest of the cable companies (RR,Comcast,Charter).
I am with RR and currently pull in 10/1 on the Docsis 1.1, but from what I get word from field technicians and contractors is that they are making upgrades nationwide and especially in Southern California for the upgrade of the 'last mile' and firmware upgrades to modems capable in next 5 years.
Actually the thing with cable is that all those analog channels that they have been closing down are for good reason to open the RF frequency. I don't have the technical aspects of it right now off memory with every frequency they open up they can get a lot more bandwidth through. They can even double the speeds by altering certain channels and upgrade later but it has to be at the router and connections to improve it; although the same has to be done with FIOS to actually have maximum potential. Something like 155MB/s for download and 120MB/s upload, but this can all be doubled/quadrupled later on at the 'last mile' and come close to FIOS speed of roughly 500MB/s.
Analog channels are about to die at least out here in Southern California they have been in preparing to open those spectrum for bandwidth, HDTV and VOD, although OTA will still be available it seems like you are now gonna have to get a box for each television for digital.
Way more info at DSLreports.com as they have been following this technology forever; sorry to post such half ass information but somebody can follow up most likely better on my info.
Just to shake things up, I believe they already do something to the tone of this.
There was some incidents of U.S. residents going over to Thailand for the child prostitution and were convicted in the U.S. under those charges even though they committed it in another country.
Another incident while I am here I will support a former local bartender here in Seal Beach,CA when he was convicted of a murder of a British police officer and how he was connected with the IRA. He was up for extradition and we got everybody together to collect money for a lawyer, but in the end we lost and he was extradited.
For awhile it was chaos, than the spammers showed up, than the guys advertising their blogs than the Ubuntu zealots showed up; it got bad when the page was almost filled with Ubuntu articles they knew they had to do something which is why we don't get spammed by every new taste of Linux also. There was a time when it was first released we would get great articles from places like hackaday.com and other cool DIY stuff.
I still enjoy the site because I can quickly glimpse over a retarded article that obviously has no interest to me; I think of it like the spam I get in the email and how quickly I can look past it to go on with my life.
Here are some of the articles up there now and actually are pretty good stuff; I mean they got the Google love that used to go on around here, IT stuff, censorship and other nerd stuff.
Digg CommentSpy Top 5 Creepiest Robot Clones Fatsecret: A Site for Fat People New York Times Confirms Google Phone 10 Unexpected Uses of the iPod MySpace China, a place for censorship Top 100 Most Influential People in IT An interesting way to explore DIGG by walking through the site-Visually Powering 4000 Homes: One Wind Turbine (PHOTOS) Dodge Challenger preproduction body shells caught on camera [PICS] The RIAA's worst nightmare: computers that understand music 12 Ways to Be A Security Idiot - A Slideshow. 150 Photos of Various Spiral Shapes (ooh pretty) PyDigg - A Python Toolkit for the Digg API The Travails of Tracking Web Traffic
Kind of get sick of Slashdot and having to hear how awful the U.S. is today, how many of my rights are being stripped away and how the socialist over in Europe have it so much better than America. DIGG is agenda free majority of the time when selecting its articles which I enjoy, but also like to hear the deeper discussion with/. on the issue.
Vista has been chugging out the compatibility updates for lots of very popular applications. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932246 This is onlyt the March update and many more to come; now compare that list to Ubuntu and how many it can run of all those.
cha ching; thanks brotha Southern California where we are at they have so much discounted stuff there that I have begun to price match at FRY's and others to basically get the stuff for free after MIR.
Got myself an employee discount after using a little barganing skills with the kid employee there to give me an employee discount; he gets a stack of blank DVD-R's set in the back of his truck and I get the discount on Vista Ultimate.
$41 out the door; nice now I can have an Ultimate version which comes with MCE and the DVD Authoring tools to make a perfect media box. Was almost about to buy XP:MCE but since Vista Ultimate comes with MCE, it makes it worth to buy and now that drivers for ATI/Nvidia have matured more it makes some perfect timing.
Yah people still J-walk though even though they know they could be hit by tons of steel. I still see police officers or highway patrol still talking on their phones all the time everyday to work in L.A. traffic.
I am just saying that it is not going to change anything unless they enact some laws to prevent it.
Although voice dialing would probably be more useful in this scenario, cannot really change people though.
a.) people are choosing to rather pirate XP/Vista than take a free OS(this country is not fully developed either so they are not forced to use MS standards)might not care to buy it or cannot afford it but doesn't mean that they do not like using it. b.) so if they are overpriced than why are people choosing to pirate it rather than take a free OS c.)only burden I had with WGA was when I had a pirated copy and had to constantly trying to beat it; yet when I buy a legal copy I never run into those problems anymore. So stop the exaggerating and stop with the fear mongering of the hardware change FUD. We have been through this that all you have to do is call up MS if you somehow have to change your motherboard 10+ times; even than after that whole fiasco where everyone got worked up over it and MS specifically stated publicly that they would not restrict(but of course that follow up article never got published here, along with many other from MS).
Hell, already I decided to test out my 2 extra free copies of Vista and have already changed the video card 2 times, the motherboard 6 times, 3 different hard drives separate times and done multiple different installs on one key with different hardware combinations to find the best performance.
what is up with your fear mongers and your constant DRM raving how it is limiting me so much in Windows; only DRM I come across are some porn.WMV files.
I can do everything that I did in Vista like I did with XP before; I can run Nero to convert all my movies or I can use the 'DVD authoring' tool provided by MS to create all my pirated movies to which it automatically adds chapters for me, just copied over my original MP3 collection from XP that I have had for the last 8 years and continue to game and play/edit media like I have been doing forever now. Still can communicate with all my friends like before, share my folders in Windows with other users, Remote Desktop still connects, Office 2007 work and I can still use my blueprint programs for construction like I did before. Boy this Windows thing from MS sure has been such a terrible experience the last 15+ years and obviously people are leaving in droves.
OK we get it that Vista sales are down and that somehow by your definition this is going to be the end of Windows and mass switch overs to Linux/OSX; could have swore I have seen this type of argument modded up the last 6 years intensively if not long before that. I wish I had a time machine or could take some money bets on line that we will be exactly where we are with Vista as we are with Windows yet more stable with better drivers; yet the same arguments will be put up again. Hell we don't even need a time machine and all you gotta do is read all the articles from 5 years ago to see some of the nonsense that was modded up and where the computer industry is now. Come on get out of that little bubble you live in and get out in the real world to get your priorities straight.
Vista is very stable from all the gaming, multimedia editing, sharing, networking and just communicating like before but with a couple of additional things that are useful.
The 'March 2007 Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update' provided many compatibility updates for a huge list of applications including games also; there are many more of these to follow and the April compatibility should be released soon. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932246 Plus I get updates smoothly from Windows Update for my graphics card and just recently got the second update for my old network card which they still support; oh and that DRM WGA does not get in my way at all unlike when I used to pirate XP I would constantly run across it but now I have a legal copy I can access all the spots on the MS site easily with no inconvenience.
There was also a scandal involving a world known Japanese company Apa Group who built two big hotels that were condemned because they did not meet earthquake code regulation; the leading engineer who is also world known was also convicted of not making many residental structures up to earthquake code.
Japanese have been dealing with earthquakes a lot more seriously especially ever since the massive blow they took with Kobe, Japan. Unfortunately until than the Japanese relied on brute strength in structual engineering for a long time until the Kobe disaster.
It actually took some American engineers to come over there to survey the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan and they had to tell the Japanese that their way of building with brute strength and support columns was very flawed; lots of government money poured in after that and since than they have lead the world in research.
If you have the Discovery channel they did an amazing coverage of some new Japanese building where they literally have this hundred ton steel/lead ball inside the top of the building used as a dynamic counter weight that shifts side to side; they even showed future plans for a mile high building that would use a giant several hundred ton ball even four times bigger than the original but toward the end of the documentary they said it just didn't make sense because it would take up so much office space at the top of the building it would not be practical.
Was there not a survey several weeks ago that a majority of Americans just 'do not care' for high speed internet or do not plan on ever getting the internet.
People have better things to do than argue constantly about how they demand more speed or whether they actually even need it; I know I need the extra upload speed badly but it is kind of hard to get that opinion out of others unless you bring up illegal file sharing. I know people who have two internet services in their house but they never understand that they are paying for it; they had a DSL line hooked up and were paying for a Sprint connection on the laptop until I told them they only needed one service.
It is kind of hard to go to a city meeting and bring up the topic of trying to get the most out of the new FIOS contracts for speeds when their Representatives constantly say otherwise; it is also partly frustrating knowing that the mosquito problem in the creek by our house or that the annual summer movie viewing at the park gets far more attention input from the community.
Just cold hard facts that we are sometimes on the minority of this opinion; although I have hopes for the new FCC chairman as I have watched him on CSPAN giving some arguments on why American needs faster speeds and several T.V. show appearances.
The only way you would suffer a power outage if you maybe ran out of river water or some other weird problem that couldn't be solved with generators.
I am probably going over my head with this type of project but I am sure a city would bend its zoning laws to allow for that much business to come to their area.
early 80's? this happened recently in the last 2 years in Southern California where they demoed the wrong house and the poor Mexican crew had no idea; it especially sucked because all the belongings were in the house and they went through it with a giant bulldozer.
In fact this type of stuff happens all the time around here and especially with parties. The kids pass out flyers for a party at some elderly persons house who is not home or arrives home when it is prime time for the party; cops show up with the kids running everywhere jumping over the fence and all you have left is a couple of dumb drunk teenage girls who have no idea whats going on. It happens a lot also with houses for sale also since this is such a huge housing market around here.
Another thing that happened around here and I find it funny that it never got news, but when the Dateline came to town in Long Beach,CA and some kids found out about it on craigslist or whatever source. So the kids print up some fliers at school on the printers saying "5 KEGGER, $2 at door girls are free, etc...." and sure enough a bunch of teenage kids show up curiously at the home expecting a party but the cops have to end up moving to a whole new area.
Here in SoCal ever since they have laid the cable I have always downloaded massive amounts of media and hundreds of Gigs of stuff from Newsgroups. For 8 months straight I downloaded something like 120GB+/month and sometimes uploaded 30+GB/month.
Just recently they upgraded our speeds here so I now get 10/1 and my uploads usually consist in a day of 2GB within a couple hours unless I limit the upload speed; no warnings and the internet has almost never been down or slow for the millions in Souther California.
Roadrunner never caps any users unlike a lot of other services and if you really want to get into this topic, we have all been talking about this topic forever on places like dslreports.com and recently people are skeptical on the Verizon FIOS section of whether they will limit DL/UL with fiber.
Uhh I work in making blueprints all day for the construction/asphalt industry(5:00am-6pm in L.A. traffic since I was 16) and my computer hobby as a kid helped me in todays 'digital construction era' where everything is precise; its also not a thing of nothing better to do but waste my 'time and money' but rather a choice millions make everyday to play some NFL/NBA/shooter game with their buddies on PC/Console. Anyways I do other things besides game and waste money in your opinion like Surf/Jog/Skate/Bike for free but I guess thats one of those whichever demographic minorities of spoiled rich kids out of the population.
Not spoiled rich kid just straight minded and hard working, I hate to burst your little bubble but this "whichever demographic" I happen to fall into of gaming happens to be a billion dollar industry of millions of users and too bad you turn a smug blind eye to it.
I also didn't know that "Ubuntu Linux with Beryl and beagle" provides all the functionality Vista provides including Directx9/DX10 and all the other goodies of compatibility with gaming or Office products.
Anyways I paid cheaply on Newegg and bought some from FRY's Electronics $100- ASUSA7N8X-E Deluxe MB with a AMD Athlon 64 3400+ lasting 2 years so far and plan to overclock it to add 3 more years. $120- 2GB PC-3200(have to bite the bullet on this one as prices never change; scumbags)
Old computer case free and bough a dozen pack of fans from FRY's for $8. $140/free- 6 year old AIW 9800-Pro (great on games CS:S, BF142,BF2,BF2142 WoW/Sims for the girlfriends kids) Total cost in last 2-6 years for computer upgrades comes out to about $300 with a free after rebate 120GB and another free 200GB HD. Although you could just buy a whole new system that will match this performance for $399 http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=4868 32 Maybe not everyone can afford the latest and greatest but there is a billion dollar industry of millions of people who are constantly buying newer hardware/laptops/desktops.
If you had patience you could practically wait for FAR(Free After Rebate) deals to pop up for computer parts on Slickdeals.net/fatwallet.com and especially that you are in the computer industry you might even be able to overclock your whole system to squeeze a lot more out by just upgrading your cooling.
No offense bro but you got a pretty shitty system as any gamer would tell you that. FX card on PCI? geez you would get a drilling in any gaming forum for not having enough common sense.
I think you are a little bit behind times in the computer technology and could probably benefit from maybe an overclock, more memory and a new video card; your cheapest bet is just to buy a new computer with it preloaded with Vista instead of hanging on to that. Your system seems more like something I would use as an extra server setup or to play tetris on.
I agree there are a lot of people around here who have no idea that there have been countless extraditions back to Britian.
There was recently in my town Seal Beach,CA where a Irish bartender who was caught up with the IRA and a murder of a British police officer back a long time ago; apparently they wanted to try him for murder for that crime so long ago. We tried to raise money for his lawyer but in the end he was extradicted.
Slashdot Mirror
well at least they get to watch movies
9 71502
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=154684&cid=12
"These are followed by 36 days worth of motion pictures - God, Devil, space opera, trains, cars, helicopters, crashes, stage etc. This R6 is 75,000,000 years ago and this planet and Confederation."
My solution was to just unscrew the lights a little.
What movie/tv show was that where they had an error on the spaceship and one of the guys just unscrews the light to fix it?
this is a must for gamers also as we constantly hit the Windows key at the bottom and it brigns up the menu while in game.
Nothing like taking a flathead and popping both of them out
also little followup and borrow some quotes from some threads at dslreports.com
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16625116
"Current docsis 1.1 systems can already deliver 34 Mbps downstream and 2 Mbps uptream. docsis 2.0 can already deliver 34 Mbps downstream and 10 Mbps upstream. docsis 3.0 hasn't been deployed yet of course and tests at 100 Mbps by bundling 3x34 Mbps.
Basically, cable can ALREADY deliver a FIOS speed package, and they are doing just that (15/2) in many FIOS areas."
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15693667
"Correct, upload per unit is currently about 10 Mbit/s if you use docsis 2.0 - For docsis 1.x its lower, I think about 4 Mbit/s.
Either way, on current technologies they can easily do 1 Mbit/s or 2 Mbit/s on the upload side without a whole lot of difficulties.
It should also be noted that when the analog channels disappear from Cable TV in 2008, there is going to be more space available for use in data communications. The digital TV channels are on a much higher and different type of frequency."
As I remember also basically most cable companies skipped over DOCSIS 2.0 and just used the 1.1 upgrade.
Adelphia though has widespread DOCSIS 2.0; which might mean in turn they may get 3.0 a little later than the rest of the cable companies (RR,Comcast,Charter).
I am with RR and currently pull in 10/1 on the Docsis 1.1, but from what I get word from field technicians and contractors is that they are making upgrades nationwide and especially in Southern California for the upgrade of the 'last mile' and firmware upgrades to modems capable in next 5 years.
Actually the thing with cable is that all those analog channels that they have been closing down are for good reason to open the RF frequency.
I don't have the technical aspects of it right now off memory with every frequency they open up they can get a lot more bandwidth through. They can even double the speeds by altering certain channels and upgrade later but it has to be at the router and connections to improve it; although the same has to be done with FIOS to actually have maximum potential. Something like 155MB/s for download and 120MB/s upload, but this can all be doubled/quadrupled later on at the 'last mile' and come close to FIOS speed of roughly 500MB/s.
Analog channels are about to die at least out here in Southern California they have been in preparing to open those spectrum for bandwidth, HDTV and VOD, although OTA will still be available it seems like you are now gonna have to get a box for each television for digital.
Way more info at DSLreports.com as they have been following this technology forever; sorry to post such half ass information but somebody can follow up most likely better on my info.
here are some interesting links about this organization
h tml
http://www.alexfoundation.org/
http://www.123compute.net/dreaming/knocking/alex.
Just to shake things up, I believe they already do something to the tone of this.
There was some incidents of U.S. residents going over to Thailand for the child prostitution and were convicted in the U.S. under those charges even though they committed it in another country.
Another incident while I am here I will support a former local bartender here in Seal Beach,CA when he was convicted of a murder of a British police officer and how he was connected with the IRA. He was up for extradition and we got everybody together to collect money for a lawyer, but in the end we lost and he was extradited.
It has its highs and lows.
/. on the issue.
For awhile it was chaos, than the spammers showed up, than the guys advertising their blogs than the Ubuntu zealots showed up; it got bad when the page was almost filled with Ubuntu articles they knew they had to do something which is why we don't get spammed by every new taste of Linux also. There was a time when it was first released we would get great articles from places like hackaday.com and other cool DIY stuff.
I still enjoy the site because I can quickly glimpse over a retarded article that obviously has no interest to me; I think of it like the spam I get in the email and how quickly I can look past it to go on with my life.
Here are some of the articles up there now and actually are pretty good stuff; I mean they got the Google love that used to go on around here, IT stuff, censorship and other nerd stuff.
Digg CommentSpy
Top 5 Creepiest Robot Clones
Fatsecret: A Site for Fat People
New York Times Confirms Google Phone
10 Unexpected Uses of the iPod
MySpace China, a place for censorship
Top 100 Most Influential People in IT
An interesting way to explore DIGG by walking through the site-Visually
Powering 4000 Homes: One Wind Turbine (PHOTOS)
Dodge Challenger preproduction body shells caught on camera [PICS]
The RIAA's worst nightmare: computers that understand music
12 Ways to Be A Security Idiot - A Slideshow.
150 Photos of Various Spiral Shapes (ooh pretty)
PyDigg - A Python Toolkit for the Digg API
The Travails of Tracking Web Traffic
Kind of get sick of Slashdot and having to hear how awful the U.S. is today, how many of my rights are being stripped away and how the socialist over in Europe have it so much better than America.
DIGG is agenda free majority of the time when selecting its articles which I enjoy, but also like to hear the deeper discussion with
I heard they send out 'Larry the Cable Guy'
Vista has been chugging out the compatibility updates for lots of very popular applications.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932246
This is onlyt the March update and many more to come; now compare that list to Ubuntu and how many it can run of all those.
cha ching; thanks brotha
Southern California where we are at they have so much discounted stuff there that I have begun to price match at FRY's and others to basically get the stuff for free after MIR.
Got myself an employee discount after using a little barganing skills with the kid employee there to give me an employee discount; he gets a stack of blank DVD-R's set in the back of his truck and I get the discount on Vista Ultimate.
$41 out the door; nice now I can have an Ultimate version which comes with MCE and the DVD Authoring tools to make a perfect media box. Was almost about to buy XP:MCE but since Vista Ultimate comes with MCE, it makes it worth to buy and now that drivers for ATI/Nvidia have matured more it makes some perfect timing.
Yah people still J-walk though even though they know they could be hit by tons of steel.
I still see police officers or highway patrol still talking on their phones all the time everyday to work in L.A. traffic.
I am just saying that it is not going to change anything unless they enact some laws to prevent it.
Although voice dialing would probably be more useful in this scenario, cannot really change people though.
a.) people are choosing to rather pirate XP/Vista than take a free OS(this country is not fully developed either so they are not forced to use MS standards)might not care to buy it or cannot afford it but doesn't mean that they do not like using it.
b.) so if they are overpriced than why are people choosing to pirate it rather than take a free OS
c.)only burden I had with WGA was when I had a pirated copy and had to constantly trying to beat it; yet when I buy a legal copy I never run into those problems anymore. So stop the exaggerating and stop with the fear mongering of the hardware change FUD. We have been through this that all you have to do is call up MS if you somehow have to change your motherboard 10+ times; even than after that whole fiasco where everyone got worked up over it and MS specifically stated publicly that they would not restrict(but of course that follow up article never got published here, along with many other from MS).
Hell, already I decided to test out my 2 extra free copies of Vista and have already changed the video card 2 times, the motherboard 6 times, 3 different hard drives separate times and done multiple different installs on one key with different hardware combinations to find the best performance.
what is up with your fear mongers and your constant DRM raving how it is limiting me so much in Windows; only DRM I come across are some porn .WMV files.
I can do everything that I did in Vista like I did with XP before; I can run Nero to convert all my movies or I can use the 'DVD authoring' tool provided by MS to create all my pirated movies to which it automatically adds chapters for me, just copied over my original MP3 collection from XP that I have had for the last 8 years and continue to game and play/edit media like I have been doing forever now. Still can communicate with all my friends like before, share my folders in Windows with other users, Remote Desktop still connects, Office 2007 work and I can still use my blueprint programs for construction like I did before. Boy this Windows thing from MS sure has been such a terrible experience the last 15+ years and obviously people are leaving in droves.
OK we get it that Vista sales are down and that somehow by your definition this is going to be the end of Windows and mass switch overs to Linux/OSX; could have swore I have seen this type of argument modded up the last 6 years intensively if not long before that. I wish I had a time machine or could take some money bets on line that we will be exactly where we are with Vista as we are with Windows yet more stable with better drivers; yet the same arguments will be put up again. Hell we don't even need a time machine and all you gotta do is read all the articles from 5 years ago to see some of the nonsense that was modded up and where the computer industry is now. Come on get out of that little bubble you live in and get out in the real world to get your priorities straight.
Vista is very stable from all the gaming, multimedia editing, sharing, networking and just communicating like before but with a couple of additional things that are useful.
The 'March 2007 Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update' provided many compatibility updates for a huge list of applications including games also; there are many more of these to follow and the April compatibility should be released soon.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932246
Plus I get updates smoothly from Windows Update for my graphics card and just recently got the second update for my old network card which they still support; oh and that DRM WGA does not get in my way at all unlike when I used to pirate XP I would constantly run across it but now I have a legal copy I can access all the spots on the MS site easily with no inconvenience.
Time Machine?
You mean System Restore
There was also a scandal involving a world known Japanese company Apa Group who built two big hotels that were condemned because they did not meet earthquake code regulation; the leading engineer who is also world known was also convicted of not making many residental structures up to earthquake code.
Japanese have been dealing with earthquakes a lot more seriously especially ever since the massive blow they took with Kobe, Japan. Unfortunately until than the Japanese relied on brute strength in structual engineering for a long time until the Kobe disaster.
It actually took some American engineers to come over there to survey the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan and they had to tell the Japanese that their way of building with brute strength and support columns was very flawed; lots of government money poured in after that and since than they have lead the world in research.
If you have the Discovery channel they did an amazing coverage of some new Japanese building where they literally have this hundred ton steel/lead ball inside the top of the building used as a dynamic counter weight that shifts side to side; they even showed future plans for a mile high building that would use a giant several hundred ton ball even four times bigger than the original but toward the end of the documentary they said it just didn't make sense because it would take up so much office space at the top of the building it would not be practical.
Was there not a survey several weeks ago that a majority of Americans just 'do not care' for high speed internet or do not plan on ever getting the internet.
People have better things to do than argue constantly about how they demand more speed or whether they actually even need it; I know I need the extra upload speed badly but it is kind of hard to get that opinion out of others unless you bring up illegal file sharing.
I know people who have two internet services in their house but they never understand that they are paying for it; they had a DSL line hooked up and were paying for a Sprint connection on the laptop until I told them they only needed one service.
It is kind of hard to go to a city meeting and bring up the topic of trying to get the most out of the new FIOS contracts for speeds when their Representatives constantly say otherwise; it is also partly frustrating knowing that the mosquito problem in the creek by our house or that the annual summer movie viewing at the park gets far more attention input from the community.
Just cold hard facts that we are sometimes on the minority of this opinion; although I have hopes for the new FCC chairman as I have watched him on CSPAN giving some arguments on why American needs faster speeds and several T.V. show appearances.
thats right the website was hacked the other day and the .ANI exploit was stuck in theree ksitehack_1.html
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/06/HNasust
Although I never visited the site because it was slow to begin with and had the worst download rates.
Netcraft says for the asus.com website that it was running Windows Server 2003 but other foregin ASUS sites were running a mix of Linux/BSD.
how about a hydro plant or even a minature one?
The only way you would suffer a power outage if you maybe ran out of river water or some other weird problem that couldn't be solved with generators.
I am probably going over my head with this type of project but I am sure a city would bend its zoning laws to allow for that much business to come to their area.
early 80's?
this happened recently in the last 2 years in Southern California where they demoed the wrong house and the poor Mexican crew had no idea; it especially sucked because all the belongings were in the house and they went through it with a giant bulldozer.
In fact this type of stuff happens all the time around here and especially with parties.
The kids pass out flyers for a party at some elderly persons house who is not home or arrives home when it is prime time for the party; cops show up with the kids running everywhere jumping over the fence and all you have left is a couple of dumb drunk teenage girls who have no idea whats going on. It happens a lot also with houses for sale also since this is such a huge housing market around here.
Another thing that happened around here and I find it funny that it never got news, but when the Dateline came to town in Long Beach,CA and some kids found out about it on craigslist or whatever source. So the kids print up some fliers at school on the printers saying "5 KEGGER, $2 at door girls are free, etc...." and sure enough a bunch of teenage kids show up curiously at the home expecting a party but the cops have to end up moving to a whole new area.
Here in SoCal ever since they have laid the cable I have always downloaded massive amounts of media and hundreds of Gigs of stuff from Newsgroups.
For 8 months straight I downloaded something like 120GB+/month and sometimes uploaded 30+GB/month.
Just recently they upgraded our speeds here so I now get 10/1 and my uploads usually consist in a day of 2GB within a couple hours unless I limit the upload speed; no warnings and the internet has almost never been down or slow for the millions in Souther California.
Roadrunner never caps any users unlike a lot of other services and if you really want to get into this topic, we have all been talking about this topic forever on places like dslreports.com and recently people are skeptical on the Verizon FIOS section of whether they will limit DL/UL with fiber.
Uhh I work in making blueprints all day for the construction/asphalt industry(5:00am-6pm in L.A. traffic since I was 16) and my computer hobby as a kid helped me in todays 'digital construction era' where everything is precise; its also not a thing of nothing better to do but waste my 'time and money' but rather a choice millions make everyday to play some NFL/NBA/shooter game with their buddies on PC/Console.
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Anyways I do other things besides game and waste money in your opinion like Surf/Jog/Skate/Bike for free but I guess thats one of those whichever demographic minorities of spoiled rich kids out of the population.
Not spoiled rich kid just straight minded and hard working, I hate to burst your little bubble but this "whichever demographic" I happen to fall into of gaming happens to be a billion dollar industry of millions of users and too bad you turn a smug blind eye to it.
I also didn't know that "Ubuntu Linux with Beryl and beagle" provides all the functionality Vista provides including Directx9/DX10 and all the other goodies of compatibility with gaming or Office products.
Anyways I paid cheaply on Newegg and bought some from FRY's Electronics
$100- ASUSA7N8X-E Deluxe MB with a AMD Athlon 64 3400+ lasting 2 years so far and plan to overclock it to add 3 more years.
$120- 2GB PC-3200(have to bite the bullet on this one as prices never change; scumbags)
Old computer case free and bough a dozen pack of fans from FRY's for $8.
$140/free- 6 year old AIW 9800-Pro (great on games CS:S, BF142,BF2,BF2142 WoW/Sims for the girlfriends kids)
Total cost in last 2-6 years for computer upgrades comes out to about $300 with a free after rebate 120GB and another free 200GB HD.
Although you could just buy a whole new system that will match this performance for $399
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=486
Maybe not everyone can afford the latest and greatest but there is a billion dollar industry of millions of people who are constantly buying newer hardware/laptops/desktops.
If you had patience you could practically wait for FAR(Free After Rebate) deals to pop up for computer parts on Slickdeals.net/fatwallet.com and especially that you are in the computer industry you might even be able to overclock your whole system to squeeze a lot more out by just upgrading your cooling.
No offense bro but you got a pretty shitty system as any gamer would tell you that.
FX card on PCI? geez you would get a drilling in any gaming forum for not having enough common sense.
I think you are a little bit behind times in the computer technology and could probably benefit from maybe an overclock, more memory and a new video card; your cheapest bet is just to buy a new computer with it preloaded with Vista instead of hanging on to that.
Your system seems more like something I would use as an extra server setup or to play tetris on.
FX card on Vista, thats a good one
Yah my buddy moved to an apartment underneath the LAX approach and he leeches off the planes all day long who are lined up.
I agree there are a lot of people around here who have no idea that there have been countless extraditions back to Britian.
There was recently in my town Seal Beach,CA where a Irish bartender who was caught up with the IRA and a murder of a British police officer back a long time ago; apparently they wanted to try him for murder for that crime so long ago.
We tried to raise money for his lawyer but in the end he was extradicted.