I think it'd be pretty clear that Amazon.com isn't a fly-by-night operation and that even if it were something wrong with the website and not a router somewhere else, it'd probably be back the same day, even if not exactly an hour later. When I buy things online, if there's something wrong with my preferred vendor, I'll just check back later in the day.
would cost Amazon more than $31,000 per minute on average.
Because obviously if someone tries to buy something and Amazon is broken for an hour, they're just going to not-buy it or buy it from a competitor. Because you definitely can't wait an extra hour to place an order when it'll take 2-10 days for the product to get shipped to you anyway.
It suggests that he is fleeing a sinking ship, when really he's using the RIAA's crusade against rationality to catapult himself into judicial office. Woo.
Seriously? Are you this stupid? It's only that resource hungry if you want to have every god-damn feature enabled. Should they have chopped out all of the extra-pretty features so it looked and ran as well as Half-Life 2? Then it would run on four-year-old hardware (like it does now, if you turn stuff off!) but the people that do have fast hardware wouldn't get any benefit. And as you beef up your computer, you'll be able to continue to get extra enjoyment out of the game for years as you dial it up.
BPL was available right here in Cincinnati for years, though it looks like you can't get it anymore. Everyone I knew that had it loved it. There were no complaints of interference. The only reason it died off, as far as I can tell, is that it just wasn't profitable when it needed to compete with DSL and cable. It was only 1mbps, symmetric, though, so I am surprised they expect to be able to pump so much bandwidth through this one.
You must be new here. Seriously, do you read the comments on Slashdot? Easily half of comments are from neo-conserva-fascists and libertarians. And of course, Republicans are for "smaller government" (Read: Lower taxes, but increase spending, despite cutting social programs) which means that the libertarians flock in that direction.
It's a freaking airplane ride. You are knee-deep in the crush of humanity. You already had to take off your shoes and belt to get on, and the TSA already reads and records the names of your books. What liberties do you think you have on an airplane?
Excellent! Then we can run the Internet for 1.7*10^23 more years before we run out of matter on Earth to power it with! Nonsense to this energy-scarcity thing.
Whoa-ho, man. Can I have some of the pot you're smoking? I almost thought you were being serious, until I read this reply. You're like the neo-con version of the Loose Change guys.
But it's such a terrible spectator sport. It was a good game, but I'm 100% convinced that it is only as insanely popular as it is for the same reason that Counter-Strike is. It just happened to appear roughly at the time when internet access really started to take off, when more and more people were getting new computers, etc. There's nothing inherent about either of the games that makes them particularly special, other than the fact that they were reasonably solid and appeared at the right time.
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"Not the fastest" != "obsolete."
What contract do you have to sign to get those prices? Do I have to pay $100/month to AT&T? For how long? Fifty years?
I think it'd be pretty clear that Amazon.com isn't a fly-by-night operation and that even if it were something wrong with the website and not a router somewhere else, it'd probably be back the same day, even if not exactly an hour later. When I buy things online, if there's something wrong with my preferred vendor, I'll just check back later in the day.
Ron Paul is a Republican. He has lost that party's nomination. So, unless he's decided to run as an independent, he won't be on the ballot.
Says 1171755 to 75490. ;)
It suggests that he is fleeing a sinking ship, when really he's using the RIAA's crusade against rationality to catapult himself into judicial office. Woo.
Seriously? Are you this stupid? It's only that resource hungry if you want to have every god-damn feature enabled. Should they have chopped out all of the extra-pretty features so it looked and ran as well as Half-Life 2? Then it would run on four-year-old hardware (like it does now, if you turn stuff off!) but the people that do have fast hardware wouldn't get any benefit. And as you beef up your computer, you'll be able to continue to get extra enjoyment out of the game for years as you dial it up.
BPL was available right here in Cincinnati for years, though it looks like you can't get it anymore. Everyone I knew that had it loved it. There were no complaints of interference. The only reason it died off, as far as I can tell, is that it just wasn't profitable when it needed to compete with DSL and cable. It was only 1mbps, symmetric, though, so I am surprised they expect to be able to pump so much bandwidth through this one.
You must be new here. Seriously, do you read the comments on Slashdot? Easily half of comments are from neo-conserva-fascists and libertarians. And of course, Republicans are for "smaller government" (Read: Lower taxes, but increase spending, despite cutting social programs) which means that the libertarians flock in that direction.
Poor bob@bob.com! That used to be my default email to use when registering at potentially-spammy sites!
He's in Israel, not the US, dude. Save your diatribe for another time.
Something that rewards me for having more manual dexterity than a three-year-old.
Windmills do not work that way!
I gave the bill a read over, but I don't see where it does what you say it does. Could you offer a quote or a line number or something?
But they're so small! What could possibly go wrong? It's not like bacteria can hurt an ecosystem.
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Rrrrrobot house!
Excellent! Then we can run the Internet for 1.7*10^23 more years before we run out of matter on Earth to power it with! Nonsense to this energy-scarcity thing.
What, you mean food?
Whoa-ho, man. Can I have some of the pot you're smoking? I almost thought you were being serious, until I read this reply. You're like the neo-con version of the Loose Change guys.
Agreed. Agreed with the intensity of one thousand suns! Whither mod points?
The Ph.D. would typically doom him, but luckily he's religious (Quaker) and has a dad-who-was-senator.
But it's such a terrible spectator sport. It was a good game, but I'm 100% convinced that it is only as insanely popular as it is for the same reason that Counter-Strike is. It just happened to appear roughly at the time when internet access really started to take off, when more and more people were getting new computers, etc. There's nothing inherent about either of the games that makes them particularly special, other than the fact that they were reasonably solid and appeared at the right time.