The fact is, it will take more cable to cover the united states than it will to cover sweeden. That has to withe the physical size of the country. Yes I'm aware that 80% of the country lives in an urban/suburban area but that still leaves 60 million people who don't.
Again, the population density in this case really doesn't matter.
Thats fine, but you still need a shit-ton of fiber to get to everyone. Population density isn't as important as sheer size when it comes to something like that.
Also, thats an average. 11/km^2 where I live in Indiana.
It has nothing to do with being backwards. You simply use the best tool for the job. I want something I can write in, scribble on, throw in a backpack without fear of it being broken. There is no electronic device that is as durable as real book. I was a chem major, I drew in my books, charts, lines, examples, etc. and in color. There is ebook equivalent that is even close.
At the moment, a dead-tree book is the best tool for reading, so I use it. Simple as that.
I was a chemistry undergrad and nearly every chemistry professor expected and encouraged us to work in groups. Homework usually counted simply as credit. If you attempted to do the homework, you got 10 points or so. In organic, homework was 10% of of grade and it was graded for accuracy. We were still encouraged to work in groups.
To the poster above me who said all homework is bullshit. In organic, we had homework that would take a week to do with at least an hour a day of work. It did help you learn the material and I probably wouldn't have been able to pass the tests without it. In some classes, there simply is not enough time to fully learn the material in the 3 hrs provided/week + lab and having to work on test-type problems does help. All my organic tests and homework were written by my professor and aside from general ideas, google is of no use.
Maybe it was just the culture of my school. The chem department was very laid back and only had 6 full-time Ph.D's (my univ doesn't use TA's).
I can't find the link at the moment, but I remember a study where humans generally find almost human-like characters revolting. I believe it came out at about the same time as "The Polar Express." I know many people who said the faces were just too creepy and they couldn't watch it.
It was something along the lines of the brain treating it like a horridly disfigured person.
Thats me, a fanboy (the correct spelling). A computer is a tool, nothing more. I have no vested interest in any company and I'm a zealot for none.
Listen, I don't give a shit what you run and you shouldn't give a shit what I run, but you can look at the other posts by people claiming the same as me. Live in your world and believe whatever you like.
I don't know if is true or not, but I've read that the holders of the major backbones do charge per GB for their use. Your ISP (unless it's a backbone holder) does have to pay per GB.
To be fair, my desktop is the same way. I don't keep it on 24/7 though because that is a waste of power. I run PS, Steam, Office, iTunes, etc. and various video editing programs.
When I was in college (a year ago), everyone on campus used AIM. It shows how long someone has been connected and you would routinely see that people had been connected for 20, 30 and 40 days. These weren't computer geeks either. Technically that shows your how long your net connection has been up but it's also a good idea of how long someones computer has been going. My desktop would run without reboots then for sometimes 60 days at a time. Updates often require reboots.
Uptime of 100's of days might not be normal, but neither is the BSOD. XP is stable for most people for what they do. The only modern computer I've had that consistently locked up or crashed was a iBook 800mhz G4 running Tiger. It would hard-lock 2-3 times/day. While it might have been hardware, It only hard-locked with Tiger and If I ran panther on it, it was solid.
Never did figure out the problem so it headed for ebay. Now I'm running a Dell e1405. It was bought about 2 years ago and is still running the default install of MCE. It gets rebooted once a month or so. I never shut it down since it can sleep. No crashes there either.
I live in a red state (very southern Indiana, and in a very rural area) and hicks or not, they are not dumb rednecks, nor is my community bigoted. Everyone gets along quite well thank you. If you know anything about Indiana, you would know there is a large push to get hi-tech industry here (by a republican governor, oh my gosh), and it's working.
Personally, I don't work in IT and have no desire what-so-ever to be in that line of work (I'm a chemist), but plenty of people are. I'm sorry that you don't like the Midwest, but your stereotypes are just plain wrong. Don't think for a second there is no hi-tech work or expertise.
From my experience, the IT folks are usually the anti-social type and really aren't that fun to be around.
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Tell that to the Cubans so eager to get out of there that they are willing leave in a floating Styrofoam cooler just to get away.
I would rather have freedom than have to have everything else. In reality, Cuba has little of both.
The fact is, it will take more cable to cover the united states than it will to cover sweeden. That has to withe the physical size of the country. Yes I'm aware that 80% of the country lives in an urban/suburban area but that still leaves 60 million people who don't.
Again, the population density in this case really doesn't matter.
In that case, why should I trust the government?
Not every corporation is in bed with government, but the government has power and control over every corporation.
Thats fine, but you still need a shit-ton of fiber to get to everyone. Population density isn't as important as sheer size when it comes to something like that.
Also, thats an average. 11/km^2 where I live in Indiana.
It has nothing to do with being backwards. You simply use the best tool for the job. I want something I can write in, scribble on, throw in a backpack without fear of it being broken. There is no electronic device that is as durable as real book. I was a chem major, I drew in my books, charts, lines, examples, etc. and in color. There is ebook equivalent that is even close.
At the moment, a dead-tree book is the best tool for reading, so I use it. Simple as that.
beer > coffee/caffeine
I cannot understand why ANYBODY would want to vote for a party.
Vote for the person, not the (R) or (D) by their name.
It is two separate drives in a common unit and only used one interface and power plug between the two.
The same slot doesn't read both disks. It has the 3.5 slot right about the 5.25 slot.
we already have this here in the states with a certain nine-digit every gets at birth.
stupid japanese have to go off a create a eleven-digit number just to show us up.
I have a 3.5/5.25 combo drive in storage at the moment. I think it was made by IBM.
You could only use one drive or the other, but they were in the same unit.
I was a chemistry undergrad and nearly every chemistry professor expected and encouraged us to work in groups. Homework usually counted simply as credit. If you attempted to do the homework, you got 10 points or so. In organic, homework was 10% of of grade and it was graded for accuracy. We were still encouraged to work in groups.
To the poster above me who said all homework is bullshit. In organic, we had homework that would take a week to do with at least an hour a day of work. It did help you learn the material and I probably wouldn't have been able to pass the tests without it. In some classes, there simply is not enough time to fully learn the material in the 3 hrs provided/week + lab and having to work on test-type problems does help. All my organic tests and homework were written by my professor and aside from general ideas, google is of no use.
Maybe it was just the culture of my school. The chem department was very laid back and only had 6 full-time Ph.D's (my univ doesn't use TA's).
You can have one or the other.
We're not talking about software, we're talking about hardware and man-hours. Those will never be free.
I can't find the link at the moment, but I remember a study where humans generally find almost human-like characters revolting. I believe it came out at about the same time as "The Polar Express." I know many people who said the faces were just too creepy and they couldn't watch it.
It was something along the lines of the brain treating it like a horridly disfigured person.
Because when it comes to world leaders there are things far higher on the list of importance than copyrights and patents.
With me, economics comes first, foreign policy second, social issues third, everything else in no particular order after that.
Why is yours or anyone else's business if I or someone else chooses to have children?
Thats a fully personal choice and no one outside of the two people deciding should have any say-so. People need to mind their own business.
Again, how is that different than apple?
On the last mac I bought (a g4 800mhz ibook), there was no software shipped other than Apple.
Not new, I just think it's dumb.
If you want to do the silly spelling thing, noob should be n00b.
I don't know. Indiana is primarily Verizon in the southern part of the state, which isn't great but they are trying to roll out DSL to everyone here.
Thats me, a fanboy (the correct spelling). A computer is a tool, nothing more. I have no vested interest in any company and I'm a zealot for none.
Listen, I don't give a shit what you run and you shouldn't give a shit what I run, but you can look at the other posts by people claiming the same as me. Live in your world and believe whatever you like.
Check out my UID. You're newer than I am.
I don't know if is true or not, but I've read that the holders of the major backbones do charge per GB for their use. Your ISP (unless it's a backbone holder) does have to pay per GB.
Does it really matter if your internal home network is ipv6? As long as my router can get an ipv6 address for my isp, that is fine.
I don't need millions of addresses for my home. 192.168.1.x is enough for me.
Haha, I can't argue with that.
I live in Harrison county. We have 71 people/mi^2, pop. of ~34k and 98.38% white.
To be fair, my desktop is the same way. I don't keep it on 24/7 though because that is a waste of power. I run PS, Steam, Office, iTunes, etc. and various video editing programs.
When I was in college (a year ago), everyone on campus used AIM. It shows how long someone has been connected and you would routinely see that people had been connected for 20, 30 and 40 days. These weren't computer geeks either. Technically that shows your how long your net connection has been up but it's also a good idea of how long someones computer has been going. My desktop would run without reboots then for sometimes 60 days at a time. Updates often require reboots.
Uptime of 100's of days might not be normal, but neither is the BSOD. XP is stable for most people for what they do. The only modern computer I've had that consistently locked up or crashed was a iBook 800mhz G4 running Tiger. It would hard-lock 2-3 times/day. While it might have been hardware, It only hard-locked with Tiger and If I ran panther on it, it was solid.
Never did figure out the problem so it headed for ebay. Now I'm running a Dell e1405. It was bought about 2 years ago and is still running the default install of MCE. It gets rebooted once a month or so. I never shut it down since it can sleep. No crashes there either.
I live in a red state (very southern Indiana, and in a very rural area) and hicks or not, they are not dumb rednecks, nor is my community bigoted. Everyone gets along quite well thank you. If you know anything about Indiana, you would know there is a large push to get hi-tech industry here (by a republican governor, oh my gosh), and it's working.
Personally, I don't work in IT and have no desire what-so-ever to be in that line of work (I'm a chemist), but plenty of people are. I'm sorry that you don't like the Midwest, but your stereotypes are just plain wrong. Don't think for a second there is no hi-tech work or expertise.
From my experience, the IT folks are usually the anti-social type and really aren't that fun to be around.