heh. the 2nd picture is how i get my internet. Sasktel's Wireless Broadband system. it's an interesting hack of DOCSIS 1.0. the tower is about 20 miles north of me and i get a maxed out signal
trouble is, it's LOS only. it has issues going through the branches of even a single tree, so a big ass tower would be needed to clear the trees and at that point, cable attenuation would be a big factor, requiring very expensive ultra-low-loss cable.
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the first one was good, just the 2nd and 3rd ones utterly sucked.
But natural gas is needed to melt the oil off the tar sands
no, we just need a good supply of thermal energy. nuclear energy would work good, especially as we have decent reactor designs and lots of uranium to run them.
Come over to Saskatchewan. we're one of the few places on this continent rolling out VDSL2, which is considerably ahead of most of the US and also an ever-improving terrestrial microwave broadband network in rural areas.
Sasktel also doesn't do any transfer capping or traffic shaping/throttling crap. you pay for the bandwidth and you do what you want with it, using as little or as much per month as you like. i know several people who have been deliberately maxing out their connection 24/7 for months on end, without so much as a peep from Sasktel.
Buying higher-end computer gear locally is often an exercise in futility, but that's what online stores are for.
(sheesh. I'm sounding like a government commercial!)
i dunno, the way the stock looks right now, it looks like a prime opportunity for day traders, being as at this price, it is fluctuating in the double-digits, and it's gone up by about 25% today (from $0.16 to $0.20) and it was up a whole $0.08 (from $0.16 to $0.24) at the high point today, which was a gain of 50%. and being as it is so cheap, the risk is fairly minimal.
Remind me to try that (smuggling milkbones, that is) next time your worst enemy flies somewhere. Boy, would that be a funny misunderstanding. Well, for all definitions of the word "funny".
- "No M-rated games sold to under 18" for videogame stores.
i haven't found anywhere short of a garage sale that doesn't require ID to buy an M-rated game. the magic age is 17, but i don't see much of a difference for this purpose.
Why should anyone believe a guy who cant even find the freaking mouse control panel? Is he really so stupid he can't figure out the mouse panel just might fix the touchpad settings on his mouse-less laptop?
the setting he needs to adjust isn't in the usual mouse control panel. you need some extra stuff (gsynaptic, i believe) to make the setting available, which dell really should have included, but didn't for whatever reason.
another sansa fan here, though i like the m200 players better, as i need something more durable (i have a tendency to forget stuff in my pockets when i do laundry), though the simple interface would get annoying for much more than 1GB of music
If I owned a store... I wouldn't worry about it at all.
3 words : word of mouth
Us Linux users are the ones that friends/relatives/etc. turn to when they need computer advise. If they piss us off, guess who we aren't recommended to those friends/relatives/etc.
1. which is usually trivial to bypass either by disabling it or simply going around it and going to a friend's house.
2. no, it isn't censorship in the typical sense and minors don't necessarily have the right to view what they want, though that doesn't automatically make blocking stuff a good idea, as they WILL get the inane right to view it in a few years anyway. arbitrary rules do not exactly invoke respect of the rules or the rulemaker.
3. no, but not teaching them about things isn't a particularly an awesome idea. teaching them about alcohol and advocating moderation is a better idea than simply leaving them ignorant and being forced to turn them loose as such when they hit 18/19/21.
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depends on how much loss you can tolerate, which depends on the gear and what the signal is like to start with.
there's a nice attenuation calcuator here.
heh. the 2nd picture is how i get my internet. Sasktel's Wireless Broadband system. it's an interesting hack of DOCSIS 1.0. the tower is about 20 miles north of me and i get a maxed out signal
trouble is, it's LOS only. it has issues going through the branches of even a single tree, so a big ass tower would be needed to clear the trees and at that point, cable attenuation would be a big factor, requiring very expensive ultra-low-loss cable.
the first one was good, just the 2nd and 3rd ones utterly sucked.
the political spectrun isn't linear. it's circular. extreme right and extreme left overlap.
But natural gas is needed to melt the oil off the tar sands
no, we just need a good supply of thermal energy. nuclear energy would work good, especially as we have decent reactor designs and lots of uranium to run them.
and a veto has what effect vs. a 2/3s majority in congress?
Come over to Saskatchewan. we're one of the few places on this continent rolling out VDSL2, which is considerably ahead of most of the US and also an ever-improving terrestrial microwave broadband network in rural areas.
Sasktel also doesn't do any transfer capping or traffic shaping/throttling crap. you pay for the bandwidth and you do what you want with it, using as little or as much per month as you like. i know several people who have been deliberately maxing out their connection 24/7 for months on end, without so much as a peep from Sasktel.
Buying higher-end computer gear locally is often an exercise in futility, but that's what online stores are for.
(sheesh. I'm sounding like a government commercial!)
you'll buy a 12k American Cobalt or Neon.
;)
Which was imported from Taiwan.
Though seriously, "domestics" are not necessarily domestic anymore, nor are "imports" necessarily imported anymore.
Most of this continent's Honda Civics are actually built in East Liberty, Ohio, and Alliston, Ontario.
just wondering, but what happens if the stock bottoms out (hits $0.00000...) when you've shorted it?
i dunno, the way the stock looks right now, it looks like a prime opportunity for day traders, being as at this price, it is fluctuating in the double-digits, and it's gone up by about 25% today (from $0.16 to $0.20) and it was up a whole $0.08 (from $0.16 to $0.24) at the high point today, which was a gain of 50%. and being as it is so cheap, the risk is fairly minimal.
are you going to make people run out and buy new sets of wrenches or something?
i haven't yet found a single non-metric bolt on my American-made '93 Plymouth, which has a 2.5Litre inline-4.
you're going metric. just gradually so people don't notice and cause an unnecessary fuss.
the main problem is propertory connectors. there are a grand total of 4 USB connectors. A, B, mini-b, micro-b.
past that, there're 18 bazillion kinds of "USB" connectors made by stupid companies.
Remind me to try that (smuggling milkbones, that is) next time your worst enemy flies somewhere. Boy, would that be a funny misunderstanding. Well, for all definitions of the word "funny".
slight adjustment.
well, using your example, the DMCA is "working fine" for the Church of Scientology, Epson, and the MAFIAA.
- "No M-rated games sold to under 18" for videogame stores.
i haven't found anywhere short of a garage sale that doesn't require ID to buy an M-rated game. the magic age is 17, but i don't see much of a difference for this purpose.
not great for zune users. it doesn't work on those either.
Why should anyone believe a guy who cant even find the freaking mouse control panel? Is he really so stupid he can't figure out the mouse panel just might fix the touchpad settings on his mouse-less laptop?
the setting he needs to adjust isn't in the usual mouse control panel. you need some extra stuff (gsynaptic, i believe) to make the setting available, which dell really should have included, but didn't for whatever reason.
another sansa fan here, though i like the m200 players better, as i need something more durable (i have a tendency to forget stuff in my pockets when i do laundry), though the simple interface would get annoying for much more than 1GB of music
If I owned a store... I wouldn't worry about it at all.
3 words : word of mouth
Us Linux users are the ones that friends/relatives/etc. turn to when they need computer advise. If they piss us off, guess who we aren't recommended to those friends/relatives/etc.
I wish that I could say that this was the last that we've seen of SCO, but I doubt it.
the evil that corporations do...
1. which is usually trivial to bypass either by disabling it or simply going around it and going to a friend's house.
2. no, it isn't censorship in the typical sense and minors don't necessarily have the right to view what they want, though that doesn't automatically make blocking stuff a good idea, as they WILL get the inane right to view it in a few years anyway. arbitrary rules do not exactly invoke respect of the rules or the rulemaker.
3. no, but not teaching them about things isn't a particularly an awesome idea. teaching them about alcohol and advocating moderation is a better idea than simply leaving them ignorant and being forced to turn them loose as such when they hit 18/19/21.
corporal punishment kept kids in line for thousands of years, no sense in trying something else.
i doubt it. it just teaches them to do a better job at not getting caught.
turn around and point the thruster the other way when you're about half-way there.
bought a legit OEM copy.
and wound up having to use the same workarounds, as WGA is a steaming pile of false positives.