Well, if you have a near-monopoly on broadband you can persecute filesharers so that you are left with the customers who pay just as much per month as the filesharers, but who use very little bandwidth. You might _never_ need to upgrade your infrastrucure.
Has this defensive tactic ever worked when it is the gubbermint that is the victim? I doubt it.
ie 'i am addicted to pole position, so it isn't my fault i was doing 20mph over the limit' 'i am addicted to WOW, so i didn't have time to fill out my tax return' etc
The next stage should be to lower the resolution and bit depth of images that can still be classed as child porn. With luck, we should be able to find these sequences of bytes 'embedded' in software and video streams all over the place and this will provide lots and lots of money for the legal profession.
The lack of advertising would be appreciated more if the BBC stopped their advertising and trailing of other BBC products in between programmes. It just gives the impression that they are struggling to fill the airtime. I want to be informed and educated, not told what is coming up on other channels, I can find out that for myself.
I doubt that there are many A and B roads in london which have no houses alongside them. Is it just NIMBYism that you value the children living in those houses less than in the smaller streets?
Ok. Seen the ads. How long before a new round of ads pointing out that a 10mph collision is even safer and the speed limit should come down from 20mph? Also, you state that drivers don't spend much time driving through built-up areas in the UK. Have you never left your yurt on the moors? Try visiting a town, or travelling by car. Look at a road map, even. Or just wait a couple of years and your moor will be paved over and built on.
I am completely stoked by this demonstration of Virgin's commitment to a better, more technological future. Who knows, by 2010 they may also increase Virgin Media's crappy 30 megabyte mailbox.
This is obviously a non-problem as the persons traveling a couple of mph above the speed limit are in VAST DANGER OMFG THINK OF THE CHILDREN and will certainly die within moments. You didn't think that speed limits were pulled out of someones ass to create revenue and 'work' for the police, did you?
Ah, having never been up a mountain my mental image is of a very large pyramid/cone with snow on the top. I assumed that it would be a continuous uphill slope. Point taken about dragging dead weight through snow on the level, let alone uphill.
I take it there are also good reasons why my brilliant idea of hang-gliding down the mountain to reduce oxygen/food requirements is not commonplace:-)
Regarding point 2, I must confess to no sympathy with the 'medium physical efforts at that altitude leave you breathless' as my extreme lack of fitness leaves me breathless when typing an ellipsis.
I am skipping this blip in the upgrade cycle and will buy the completed product, thanks. I am currently awaiting Windows 12, which I hear will be super awesome cool, with a whole new filesystem and icons and stuff. Maybe even the fabled 2-player Solitaire. Till then I see no reason to change from 3.11 WfW (especially since the newer windows have less graceful file copy error handling).
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To greatly lower energy use for the whole nation, build a 'B' ark for the government and their parasitic consultants, lobbyists etc.
Well, if you have a near-monopoly on broadband you can persecute filesharers so that you are left with the customers who pay just as much per month as the filesharers, but who use very little bandwidth. You might _never_ need to upgrade your infrastrucure.
What? You thought magazines were objective and impartial?
Has this defensive tactic ever worked when it is the gubbermint that is the victim? I doubt it.
ie 'i am addicted to pole position, so it isn't my fault i was doing 20mph over the limit'
'i am addicted to WOW, so i didn't have time to fill out my tax return'
etc
It may have caught on, but it is still crappy.
Pfft. Fuck streaming, it is always crappy.
'The beatles are dying in the wrong order'
Well, yes. But ONLY if it is easier and safer than going after 'actual' criminals.
The next stage should be to lower the resolution and bit depth of images that can still be classed as child porn. With luck, we should be able to find these sequences of bytes 'embedded' in software and video streams all over the place and this will provide lots and lots of money for the legal profession.
The lack of advertising would be appreciated more if the BBC stopped their advertising and trailing of other BBC products in between programmes. It just gives the impression that they are struggling to fill the airtime. I want to be informed and educated, not told what is coming up on other channels, I can find out that for myself.
Hehe, a DOS that could handle modern hardware and running from ramdisk would be quite a laugh. Ooh, duke3d would run sweet :-)
Well, that's the peer-to-peer problem eradicated forever! Is there nothing that bureaucrats can't solve?
I doubt that there are many A and B roads in london which have no houses alongside them. Is it just NIMBYism that you value the children living in those houses less than in the smaller streets?
Ok. Seen the ads. How long before a new round of ads pointing out that a 10mph collision is even safer and the speed limit should come down from 20mph?
Also, you state that drivers don't spend much time driving through built-up areas in the UK. Have you never left your yurt on the moors? Try visiting a town, or travelling by car. Look at a road map, even. Or just wait a couple of years and your moor will be paved over and built on.
What, me, Rick, a virgin? Try telling that to some of the foxy chicks who owe me favours!
No, octopuses are not inherently evil. You are thinking of krakens.
I am completely stoked by this demonstration of Virgin's commitment to a better, more technological future. Who knows, by 2010 they may also increase Virgin Media's crappy 30 megabyte mailbox.
This is obviously a non-problem as the persons traveling a couple of mph above the speed limit are in VAST DANGER OMFG THINK OF THE CHILDREN and will certainly die within moments. You didn't think that speed limits were pulled out of someones ass to create revenue and 'work' for the police, did you?
Sod your stupid cell phone and laptop! This would be super awesome for my toy helicopter!
Ok, tell me where this Dan German guy hangs out and i will keep well away!
"bump prices up a little and use the surplus to fund research instead of paying CEO salaries and shareholder dividends"
Hahahahahahahahaha! Good luck persuading the decisionmakers, ie CEOs and shareholders.
Better to fund my start-up which reduces consumer demand while producing fuel from local sources. Send your cheques to The Soylent Diesel Company.
Ah, having never been up a mountain my mental image is of a very large pyramid/cone with snow on the top. I assumed that it would be a continuous uphill slope. Point taken about dragging dead weight through snow on the level, let alone uphill.
I take it there are also good reasons why my brilliant idea of hang-gliding down the mountain to reduce oxygen/food requirements is not commonplace :-)
Regarding point 2, I must confess to no sympathy with the 'medium physical efforts at that altitude leave you breathless' as my extreme lack of fitness leaves me breathless when typing an ellipsis.
I am skipping this blip in the upgrade cycle and will buy the completed product, thanks. I am currently awaiting Windows 12, which I hear will be super awesome cool, with a whole new filesystem and icons and stuff. Maybe even the fabled 2-player Solitaire. Till then I see no reason to change from 3.11 WfW (especially since the newer windows have less graceful file copy error handling).
Meh, stuff the body in a zorb and pick it up at the foot of the mountain.
This is going to sound stupid, but why is dragging something downhill so difficult?