Where I live is in the midst of a moderately dense residential area a few miles from downtown. We have a single high speed provider available, and our current plan is about $65/month for "up to 12/2 Mbps". And, indeed, on speed tests and the occasional Linux ISO torrent, I actually see those kinds of speeds. However, for practical applications, such as streaming videos on Hulu, we're lucky to have things play smoothly at the 0.5 Mbps resolution even at off-peak hours.
I don't think we necessarily need faster rated connections, but ones that can actually perform to their specifications under average usage conditions.
claiming that 'the president had the constitutional authority, no matter what the law actually says, to order domestic spying without [constitutional] warrants,'
Where on earth does the constitution say this? Once found, it needs to be removed immediately, in my opinion. Further, any president willing to use such an outrageous power should also be removed immediately. And anyone who supports them using it.
I am a bit curious about the past tense wording (had the authority), though.
This has always bugged me, too. If, for example, you take the black hole at the center of our galaxy, assume all of its mass is located in a singular location and that it is roughly a sphere with a diameter of one Planck length, you get a density of about 3.88 * 10^141 kg/m^3. Very high, but a far cry from infinite.
That's understandable. It would likely be more interesting and useful (and intrusive) to have some kind of passive means of measuring actual visitors taking part in your system such that a zero-cent option would be unnecessary. There's a world of difference between making $3.44 split between 10 people and making $3.44 split between 10,000 people.
Interestingly, bacteria is the plural form of bacterium, so there's nothing really wrong in the sense you imply. I'm more concerned with the fact that they're apparently not actually creating gold.
Don't punish the students just because the adults are bumfuck retarded.
I agree. I don't often admit this, but I grew up and attended school in Kentucky. Seeing news like this makes me sad for my home state. I don't recall much from my high school years, but I don't think there were any overtly religious topics discussed. However, I don't think students should be screwed out of a proper education just because some biased idiot in a position of power can't keep his personal and political beliefs separate.
I would disagree (to an extent). In ages past, I used to upgrade my computer at least once a year, if not more frequently. I've been a software developer and gamer for a very long time, and tend to try to stay on top of things.
That said, my last major upgrade for my main system was about 3 and a half years ago. I can still play just about any game that comes out on the highest settings with no issue. When I end up using a newer system with a "faster" CPU and more RAM, I would be hard pressed to discern a significant performance difference from my 3.5 year old machine.
The only notable difference is I have a (now "out of date") gaming video card, but for non-gaming related tasks, my computer is just as quick to perform anything the newer hardware does. I'm not going to drop another $1500 for such an intangible increase in speed.
I read it as one in a million cells are falsely identified. So, every 10 seconds or so (at 100,000/sec) it would incorrectly classify one. Sounds like a bad thing being spun as good.
I would surmise that someone would need to be legally insane to willingly go to a place without society, without parks, without schools, without culture, without even atmosphere, without children, without the elderly and without the prospect of seeing those things first hand again.
What a coincidence. Aside from the atmosphere, those are all the things I dislike about living on earth.
Well, sure it does. To calculate how much faster it actually is, you take the time it didn't take (infinity - time_it_took) and multiply that by your new factor (1.3 to 2.0), then subtract that from infinity and you have your new rate.
Oh, that's alright. I'll just have to cut back on my video game purchases so that I don't end up with a whole bunch of crappy games that I can't resell.
The box my router came in has a table on the back that implies that if I want to watch HD movies, I should have purchased the model with "300 + 300 Mbps" wireless. This is, of course, despite the fact that most of my devices are wired and my actual internet connection can only provide 2% of that.
I tend to agree for the most part. I recently went back to college to start an electronics engineering degree program. While there is a lot of work, none of it particularly difficult. I'm doing quite well, but I can't help noticing that 95% of my fellow students are struggling immensely. What I really don't understand is why they chose to enter a program like this while claiming to hate math and logic.
I often stay after class to help out those who are willing to accept it, but there's only so much I can do. The biggest problem, in my opinion, is that because so many of the students are having a difficult time, the entire class gets behind as we continually rehash the same material far after what was allotted in the syllabus. I'm almost hoping that many of them will drop out so that future semesters can go more smoothly.
I've had the exact opposite experience. I use the start menu far more often when I'm using a windows 7 system than I did with any of the XP or below systems in the past. It's much, much faster to hit the windows key and type a few letters of the program I want to launch than it is to hunt through a desktop full of icons.
I'm an american, and I think you're all fucking crazy, too. The strongest drug I take on any sort of regular basis is ibuprofen. I've been diagnosed with clinical depression, but I'm not taking anything for it. I was originally prescribed a couple of different things, but they had no positive effect whatsoever.
I recall one night while my girlfriend and I were watching something on Hulu shortly after I had gone through their Ad Tailor survey. We saw the exact same commercial at least 6 or 7 times in a row, once playing back to back in a 2-commercial break. After that, I went back and lied on their survey to make it less tedious.
What ever happened to interfaces deigned for a *user*, not a techie ( like we had with the newton for example )?
I'm in my (late) 20s, so not even elderly yet, and I've been writing code for computers since I was 6. The example in the summary of a plus icon for setting an alarm is just plain unintuitive. It's been a while since I've had to write anything with a GUI, but I'm pretty sure that was a relatively important aspect of interface design.
Has it really gotten that bad? Luckily for me, NoScript blocks all of the javascript on here, so any page, regardless of its size, loads just as quick as anywhere else. They also have an option under the preferences to switch to the classic discussion system that might help as well.
Unfortunately, I'm a subscriber to Mediacom with no other alternatives in the area. What has most annoyed me about all of this is that their "service" appears to periodically forget that I've opted out of it and will re-enable itself periodically.
I actually ran this before when I first noticed their redirection a few months ago, but I've rerun it now to relay the results. Here's the interesting bits:
Major Abnormalities
Your DNS resolver returns results even when no such server exists
Minor Aberrations
Certain TCP protocols are blocked in outbound traffic
Network packet buffering may be excessive
Not all DNS types were correctly processed
DNS results wildcarding (?): Warning
Your ISP's DNS server returns IP addresses even for domain names which should not resolve. Instead of an error, the DNS server returns an address of 67.63.55.33, which resolves to mediacomassist.infospace.com. You can inspect the resulting HTML content here.
There are several possible explanations for this behavior. The most likely cause is that the ISP is attempting to profit from customer's typos by presenting advertisements in response to bad requests, but it could also be due to an error or misconfiguration in the DNS server.
The big problem with this behavior is that it can potentially break any network application which relies on DNS properly returning an error when a name does not exist.
The following lists your DNS server's behavior in more detail.
www.{random}.com is mapped to 67.63.55.33.
www.{random}.org is mapped to 67.63.55.33.
fubar.{random}.com is correctly reported as an error.
www.yahoo.cmo [sic] is mapped to 67.63.55.33.
nxdomain.{random}.netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu is correctly reported as an error.
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Where I live is in the midst of a moderately dense residential area a few miles from downtown. We have a single high speed provider available, and our current plan is about $65/month for "up to 12/2 Mbps". And, indeed, on speed tests and the occasional Linux ISO torrent, I actually see those kinds of speeds. However, for practical applications, such as streaming videos on Hulu, we're lucky to have things play smoothly at the 0.5 Mbps resolution even at off-peak hours.
I don't think we necessarily need faster rated connections, but ones that can actually perform to their specifications under average usage conditions.
Where on earth does the constitution say this? Once found, it needs to be removed immediately, in my opinion. Further, any president willing to use such an outrageous power should also be removed immediately. And anyone who supports them using it.
I am a bit curious about the past tense wording (had the authority), though.
This has always bugged me, too. If, for example, you take the black hole at the center of our galaxy, assume all of its mass is located in a singular location and that it is roughly a sphere with a diameter of one Planck length, you get a density of about 3.88 * 10^141 kg/m^3. Very high, but a far cry from infinite.
That's understandable. It would likely be more interesting and useful (and intrusive) to have some kind of passive means of measuring actual visitors taking part in your system such that a zero-cent option would be unnecessary. There's a world of difference between making $3.44 split between 10 people and making $3.44 split between 10,000 people.
Are you recording the lack of a click in some way, then?
Which of these is more meaningful?
60% chose 1 cent
30% chose 2 cents
10% chose 3 cents
Or:
90% chose 0 cents
6% chose 1 cent
3% chose 2 cents
1% chose 3 cents
Interestingly, bacteria is the plural form of bacterium, so there's nothing really wrong in the sense you imply. I'm more concerned with the fact that they're apparently not actually creating gold.
I certainly would. Incidentally, that would also make it easier to find comfortable pants.
I agree. I don't often admit this, but I grew up and attended school in Kentucky. Seeing news like this makes me sad for my home state. I don't recall much from my high school years, but I don't think there were any overtly religious topics discussed. However, I don't think students should be screwed out of a proper education just because some biased idiot in a position of power can't keep his personal and political beliefs separate.
I would disagree (to an extent). In ages past, I used to upgrade my computer at least once a year, if not more frequently. I've been a software developer and gamer for a very long time, and tend to try to stay on top of things.
That said, my last major upgrade for my main system was about 3 and a half years ago. I can still play just about any game that comes out on the highest settings with no issue. When I end up using a newer system with a "faster" CPU and more RAM, I would be hard pressed to discern a significant performance difference from my 3.5 year old machine.
The only notable difference is I have a (now "out of date") gaming video card, but for non-gaming related tasks, my computer is just as quick to perform anything the newer hardware does. I'm not going to drop another $1500 for such an intangible increase in speed.
I read it as one in a million cells are falsely identified. So, every 10 seconds or so (at 100,000/sec) it would incorrectly classify one. Sounds like a bad thing being spun as good.
What a coincidence. Aside from the atmosphere, those are all the things I dislike about living on earth.
Well, sure it does. To calculate how much faster it actually is, you take the time it didn't take (infinity - time_it_took) and multiply that by your new factor (1.3 to 2.0), then subtract that from infinity and you have your new rate.
Well, clearly, gravity is the root cause of the obesity problem in the US.
Oh, that's alright. I'll just have to cut back on my video game purchases so that I don't end up with a whole bunch of crappy games that I can't resell.
Don't forget the 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio!
The box my router came in has a table on the back that implies that if I want to watch HD movies, I should have purchased the model with "300 + 300 Mbps" wireless. This is, of course, despite the fact that most of my devices are wired and my actual internet connection can only provide 2% of that.
Well, how else are you to let your thousands of "friends" know that you checked your watch?
I tend to agree for the most part. I recently went back to college to start an electronics engineering degree program. While there is a lot of work, none of it particularly difficult. I'm doing quite well, but I can't help noticing that 95% of my fellow students are struggling immensely. What I really don't understand is why they chose to enter a program like this while claiming to hate math and logic.
I often stay after class to help out those who are willing to accept it, but there's only so much I can do. The biggest problem, in my opinion, is that because so many of the students are having a difficult time, the entire class gets behind as we continually rehash the same material far after what was allotted in the syllabus. I'm almost hoping that many of them will drop out so that future semesters can go more smoothly.
I've had the exact opposite experience. I use the start menu far more often when I'm using a windows 7 system than I did with any of the XP or below systems in the past. It's much, much faster to hit the windows key and type a few letters of the program I want to launch than it is to hunt through a desktop full of icons.
I'm an american, and I think you're all fucking crazy, too. The strongest drug I take on any sort of regular basis is ibuprofen. I've been diagnosed with clinical depression, but I'm not taking anything for it. I was originally prescribed a couple of different things, but they had no positive effect whatsoever.
I recall one night while my girlfriend and I were watching something on Hulu shortly after I had gone through their Ad Tailor survey. We saw the exact same commercial at least 6 or 7 times in a row, once playing back to back in a 2-commercial break. After that, I went back and lied on their survey to make it less tedious.
Don't worry. It's probably just over at the Ministry of Truth being "cleaned up" before being put online.
I'm in my (late) 20s, so not even elderly yet, and I've been writing code for computers since I was 6. The example in the summary of a plus icon for setting an alarm is just plain unintuitive. It's been a while since I've had to write anything with a GUI, but I'm pretty sure that was a relatively important aspect of interface design.
Has it really gotten that bad? Luckily for me, NoScript blocks all of the javascript on here, so any page, regardless of its size, loads just as quick as anywhere else. They also have an option under the preferences to switch to the classic discussion system that might help as well.
I actually ran this before when I first noticed their redirection a few months ago, but I've rerun it now to relay the results. Here's the interesting bits:
Major Abnormalities
Minor Aberrations
DNS results wildcarding (?): Warning
Your ISP's DNS server returns IP addresses even for domain names which should not resolve. Instead of an error, the DNS server returns an address of 67.63.55.33, which resolves to mediacomassist.infospace.com. You can inspect the resulting HTML content here.
There are several possible explanations for this behavior. The most likely cause is that the ISP is attempting to profit from customer's typos by presenting advertisements in response to bad requests, but it could also be due to an error or misconfiguration in the DNS server.
The big problem with this behavior is that it can potentially break any network application which relies on DNS properly returning an error when a name does not exist.
The following lists your DNS server's behavior in more detail.