Google is very much opposed any kind of tempering, not just tampering which affects them.
Also keep in mind that they have the some of the smartest brains on the planet (outside of the NSA) and it is possible to check for many different kinds of tampering. Its a very safe bet that the tool will do a extremely good job.
They problem is that the ISPs over there are advertising it as unlimited interent. You pay a flat fee and you can download as much as you want.
The catch is either in the fine print or its omitted completely.
Its illegal in Australia but legal in the US to do that. Thats why nearly all our net plans have fixed quotas (sometimes with on and off peak) and your shaped after reaching the limit.
It is the next simplest solution and its extremely fair for consumers.
No, Its making some people who just memorize the textbook look less smart than the people who understand the textbook as they can now quickly find what they are looking for.
So part of the population get smarter, while another part looks stupider.
I've never had problems with speed on Google Earth.
Even my Pentium 3 laptop with Intel 815 graphics can do it fairly well. Of course there are some pretty horrendous graphic glitches but it does work.;)
Erm. You have a UPS on your computer and it still has dodgy power? You have something seriously wrong in that case.
Even bare bones UPSes wont allow the voltage fluctuate. If mine detects anything astray it will 'rebuild' the power completely and give my computer *exactly* 240v.
I'd admit that I've been lucky but I have had my fair share of hard drives.
I also admit that I use RAID 5 on my home server (my main data store) but not on my other computers.
How the hell do you get power surges in a computer? You must be using some pretty dodgy power supplies. They should die, absorbing the surge rather than letting it through.
Writes to a hard drive dont matter in the slightest. They are the same as reads in terms of wear and tear. If you write to SSDs a lot then your looking at it having a very short life.
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In Australia by law they have to prominently display any limits.
You seem to have mixed up molecule and atom in your comment. :P
Breaking water apart is a chemical process, not nuclear fission.
Where have you been for the last 2 years or so?
Google is very much opposed any kind of tempering, not just tampering which affects them.
Also keep in mind that they have the some of the smartest brains on the planet (outside of the NSA) and it is possible to check for many different kinds of tampering.
Its a very safe bet that the tool will do a extremely good job.
Unless the fast speeds are coming from their peering partners while the true internet comes via a 56k modem. ;)
They problem is that the ISPs over there are advertising it as unlimited interent.
You pay a flat fee and you can download as much as you want.
The catch is either in the fine print or its omitted completely.
Its illegal in Australia but legal in the US to do that.
Thats why nearly all our net plans have fixed quotas (sometimes with on and off peak) and your shaped after reaching the limit.
It is the next simplest solution and its extremely fair for consumers.
Fine. Replace it with LED digits then. Happy? :P
In Australia, Paypal cant do as they please thank god. :)
The ACCC does great work over here.
They have more common sense than every other government department in the world combined.
Intelligent Design is the scientifically backed version of Creationism.
They are the same thing effectively in this discussion.
So you were raised in to 'knowing' that God is real?
The same way if you were born in the middle east you'd 'know' that Allah is real.
And if you were born a few thousand years ago in Mexico you'd 'know' that Quetzalcoatl is real.
See my point?
Sure the community is great but basing it all on a really old book which has been edited and mis-translated isnt really smart.
In a (nearly) infinite universe, there is a (nearly) infinite number of lifeforms.
So quite a high probability of life actually.
Sure the chance of life evolving on Earth was quite lucky but it was bound to happen somewhere.
No, Its making some people who just memorize the textbook look less smart than the people who understand the textbook as they can now quickly find what they are looking for.
So part of the population get smarter, while another part looks stupider.
Would you commit suicide if I called you a fucktard? :P
I'm surprised you guys are still in there. :P
Come to Australia or Europe. Both are nice places.
What happened to sticks and stones?
Technology wise they have beaten Google.
But I would be genuinely shocked if Google doesnt have similar tech being made.
I've never had problems with speed on Google Earth.
;)
Even my Pentium 3 laptop with Intel 815 graphics can do it fairly well.
Of course there are some pretty horrendous graphic glitches but it does work.
This is a niche which has not been filled yet, its been developed openly and its not horribly broken.
Name a Microsoft 'standard' which meets those criteria.
What? You invented the internet and Al Gore is getting all the credit? :P
But the question is if Microsoft will adopt the standard or make their own.
Erm. You have a UPS on your computer and it still has dodgy power?
You have something seriously wrong in that case.
Even bare bones UPSes wont allow the voltage fluctuate.
If mine detects anything astray it will 'rebuild' the power completely and give my computer *exactly* 240v.
Morale of the story?
Fuck Microsoft and just use a consistent OS which doesnt give you crap.
ME was the last DOS based OS fyi.
I'd admit that I've been lucky but I have had my fair share of hard drives.
I also admit that I use RAID 5 on my home server (my main data store) but not on my other computers.
How the hell do you get power surges in a computer?
You must be using some pretty dodgy power supplies.
They should die, absorbing the surge rather than letting it through.
Writes to a hard drive dont matter in the slightest.
They are the same as reads in terms of wear and tear.
If you write to SSDs a lot then your looking at it having a very short life.
ASCII porn would flourish once again!
Pity that they've stopped getting advisers for movies.
The list of movies with factually correct technical details is small.
It was nice that they did it properly for The Matrix though.