Telstra ding you for traffic both ways. Some ISPs ding you for the max of either way. Most only charge you for traffic sent your way (ie, downloads).
Many are connected to state-wide peering arrangements like WAIX, and most of those offer free traffic across the peering point (so, forex, ArachNet don't account me anything for an ISO image I pick up from a WestNet server). EfTel don't do the free traffic. Highway1 only recently started doing so. iPrimus, the Scrooges, even account you for traffic from other iPrimus customers and their own servers!
IV spends a fair few words shredding Jewish and other mythologies - at least, as they are normally interpreted.
IV predicted that Venus would be hot (but still cooling measurably), with high-pressure hydrocarbon-containing atmosphere and odd rotation while everyone else was predicting Earthlike conditions.
IV predicted that Jupiter would be a radio source, while everyone else said no.
IV predicted much stronger magnetism in the Lunar rocks than anybody else.
IV predicted that hydrocarbons would be found in comet tails, while everyone else was determined to stick with just dust and ice.
There were many other successful predictions - and watch out for solid-sounding but unsuccessful debunkings, as well. Velikovsky did indeed get some things wrong (IMESHO a few of them very badly wrong), but not near as many as his critics have claimed.
For example, the "Venus has no hydrocarbons" argument is based on measurement of the cloud tops, not of the body of the atmosphere. Would you expect to see heavy hydrocarbons in the could tops? The "Venus should have left footprints in the Greenland ice" argument was based on an ice dating system which mistook diffusion-based varves for annual varves (and is still widely accepted anyway, wooja bleev?). And so on.
The concern is with the *appearance* of security
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Actual security is entirely optional, as long as the nice customers trust Microsoft's software enough to keep shelling out for it... or for the other Microsoft software entailed by it. Heed this Douglas Adams quote:
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who by peddling second-hand, second-rate technology, led them all into it in the first place.
Linux is a great OS, but would you care to tell us how it's going to keep his trackpad and USB ports from failing?
Many, many apparently-hardware faults are cured by diddling with the MS Windows drivers for the ailing device. The drivers, like the applications, can break and be broken fairly readily. That's much harder (equals much less frequent) on Linux.
If he's backing stuff up anyway, he can do it to a USB2+Firewire enclosure; if the lappie's hard drive puts the heads through the platter, he can still boot and run from that. If either of USB2 or Firewire suffers a hardware problem, he can still backup through (and boot from) the other buss. Easily done with Linux, hardly done with MS Windows.
...for one article. That's not a micropayment, and if they wonder why they're not being read except by subscribers, then not even a 2x4 would get the answer into their dense little crania.
...converting from MSVB to anything else is painful, just like converting from MS Windows to anythging else. However, GamBas, XBasic and a few others are syntactically not far away from VB6 if you do need to do a conversion, and because they're FOSS they need never die.
Because of the way Naken's written VB2C, it's quite a reasonable approach to rework that into a VB2otherBASIC converter rather than converting a large MSVB project by hand.
...and MS Outlook get installed in the first place. That and stealth reinstalls encapsulated in updates and hotfixes.
The time has come, methinks, to firstly obliterate even the faintest trace of MSIE from your machine and secondly to start a FOSS project for replacing MS Update.
Allow MSIE to be installed?
( ) Yes
(o) Over my dead body
E.g. an 80GB laptop drive in an external USB2/Firewire case not much larger than a deck of cards gives you 16x as much storage, is much less likely to be a target of theft itself, and is easier to encrypt than your boot partition.
The other little thing to lug along is a 512kB Flash-on-USB stick with a copy of Mandrake Move, Knoppix or the like printed on it, so that *when* MS Windows buggers itself up you've got some way of, e.g., showing a presentation within 30 seconds, and some tools for quickly restoring from the external drive.
Of course, running his lappie on Linux would both stop the apparently regular self-immolation and make the machine more secure (both in terms of looking less familiar and with the aid of a BIOS password being less immediately useful to a thief). KDM wallpaper with some 'phone numbers plastered all over it is a good start.
The third option is, of course, buy a Mac laptop. Unfortunately, these are much more attractive (look sweeter, are known to be more expensive) and therefore more vulnerable to theft. On the other hand, they are reliable enough that a backup drive shouldn't be needed all that often.
Another simple anti-theft precaution is to remove the CD/DVD and/or floppy drive (if possible - and who uses floppies anyway?) when you go travelling. It makes the laptop less attractive for a thief because it's harder to wipe-and-reinstall.
if the power wiring is not segmented (for fifty users, it will likely come in two to six easily RF-separable sets of circuits, typically one set per floor), if each of the three phases are RF-connected and not filtered (unlikely), and if every single resident uses the service.
In real life and assuming reasonable terms, about half of your tenants will take you up on it; the three phases will be separable, and your fifty residences will be in three floors of seventeen units each. This gives you six residences per phase per segment, or three actual users per phase-segment. More likely this would happen to a block of 600 units on five floors with about 30 actual users per phase-segment, or about 6Mb/s each.
Then we add the killer term: on average.
If two of those users are watching the same video feed, they share 12Mb/s for it (and with a compressed video stream would be struggling to use more than about 2, thus freeing up anouther 10Mb for the others). If another happens to have their PC off while they're at work, their 6MB is 100% available to the other 30, ie, 0.2Mb extra each (pecking away at email, IM, IRC or HTML browsing will also use close enough to zero bandwidth, out of 6Mb, for most accounting purposes).
...but I have cursed (metamodded against) the idiot who painted this with a "Flamebait" rating.
Note to such idiots: modding is not about whether you agree with what's said, it's about how well the poster made their point. This post was well written, made some good points (if not as valid as the author might hope), was on topic and (-: hallelujah!:-) gramatically correct.
I'd give it +1 Interesting. Perhaps Slash needs to do something like LXer and break the ratings out into separate agree/disagree, quality/trash scales?
See here for example. And there are a few good arguments against threads entirely (one of them being Linux's ultra-lite fork() implementation, which is of course not portable).
That said, AFAICT the only reason I can see that (AFAIK) no portable native-thread Ruby module has yet been standardised on is that Matz doesn't like the idea.
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Telstra ding you for traffic both ways. Some ISPs ding you for the max of either way. Most only charge you for traffic sent your way (ie, downloads).
Many are connected to state-wide peering arrangements like WAIX, and most of those offer free traffic across the peering point (so, forex, ArachNet don't account me anything for an ISO image I pick up from a WestNet server). EfTel don't do the free traffic. Highway1 only recently started doing so. iPrimus, the Scrooges, even account you for traffic from other iPrimus customers and their own servers!
For that, even in text mode, dialup just sucks.
It shows. Big time.
IV spends a fair few words shredding Jewish and other mythologies - at least, as they are normally interpreted.
IV predicted that Venus would be hot (but still cooling measurably), with high-pressure hydrocarbon-containing atmosphere and odd rotation while everyone else was predicting Earthlike conditions.
IV predicted that Jupiter would be a radio source, while everyone else said no.
IV predicted much stronger magnetism in the Lunar rocks than anybody else.
IV predicted that hydrocarbons would be found in comet tails, while everyone else was determined to stick with just dust and ice.
There were many other successful predictions - and watch out for solid-sounding but unsuccessful debunkings, as well. Velikovsky did indeed get some things wrong (IMESHO a few of them very badly wrong), but not near as many as his critics have claimed.
For example, the "Venus has no hydrocarbons" argument is based on measurement of the cloud tops, not of the body of the atmosphere. Would you expect to see heavy hydrocarbons in the could tops? The "Venus should have left footprints in the Greenland ice" argument was based on an ice dating system which mistook diffusion-based varves for annual varves (and is still widely accepted anyway, wooja bleev?). And so on.
Perhaps Phobos' whacking great craters were made by outgassing too? If they were done by impacts, thees leetle moon, she's a history.
For those who don't get it.
Oh, help yourself to another can of Perri-air before you pass out.
One more of his predictions gets a gold star. Wouldn't surpise him to see small amounts of heavier hydrocarbons too.
Plus a lot of the stuff mentioned by you, plus GCC 4.
The thing which fails might not be the trackpad specifically, but even XP will drop or confuse devices at random sometimes.
I like "lappie", and if it puts you in mind of private dancers or hyperintelligent kelpies, post with your real nick to say so.
...and falling.
How sad. <leaps embellishment="clicks heels">
If he's backing stuff up anyway, he can do it to a USB2+Firewire enclosure; if the lappie's hard drive puts the heads through the platter, he can still boot and run from that. If either of USB2 or Firewire suffers a hardware problem, he can still backup through (and boot from) the other buss. Easily done with Linux, hardly done with MS Windows.
...for one article. That's not a micropayment, and if they wonder why they're not being read except by subscribers, then not even a 2x4 would get the answer into their dense little crania.
...converting from MSVB to anything else is painful, just like converting from MS Windows to anythging else. However, GamBas, XBasic and a few others are syntactically not far away from VB6 if you do need to do a conversion, and because they're FOSS they need never die.
Because of the way Naken's written VB2C, it's quite a reasonable approach to rework that into a VB2otherBASIC converter rather than converting a large MSVB project by hand.
Thanks, Naken!
...and MS Outlook get installed in the first place. That and stealth reinstalls encapsulated in updates and hotfixes.
The time has come, methinks, to firstly obliterate even the faintest trace of MSIE from your machine and secondly to start a FOSS project for replacing MS Update.
Allow MSIE to be installed?
( ) Yes
(o) Over my dead body
E.g. an 80GB laptop drive in an external USB2/Firewire case not much larger than a deck of cards gives you 16x as much storage, is much less likely to be a target of theft itself, and is easier to encrypt than your boot partition.
The other little thing to lug along is a 512kB Flash-on-USB stick with a copy of Mandrake Move, Knoppix or the like printed on it, so that *when* MS Windows buggers itself up you've got some way of, e.g., showing a presentation within 30 seconds, and some tools for quickly restoring from the external drive.
Of course, running his lappie on Linux would both stop the apparently regular self-immolation and make the machine more secure (both in terms of looking less familiar and with the aid of a BIOS password being less immediately useful to a thief). KDM wallpaper with some 'phone numbers plastered all over it is a good start.
The third option is, of course, buy a Mac laptop. Unfortunately, these are much more attractive (look sweeter, are known to be more expensive) and therefore more vulnerable to theft. On the other hand, they are reliable enough that a backup drive shouldn't be needed all that often.
Another simple anti-theft precaution is to remove the CD/DVD and/or floppy drive (if possible - and who uses floppies anyway?) when you go travelling. It makes the laptop less attractive for a thief because it's harder to wipe-and-reinstall.
...for many city dwellers.
if the power wiring is not segmented (for fifty users, it will likely come in two to six easily RF-separable sets of circuits, typically one set per floor), if each of the three phases are RF-connected and not filtered (unlikely), and if every single resident uses the service.
In real life and assuming reasonable terms, about half of your tenants will take you up on it; the three phases will be separable, and your fifty residences will be in three floors of seventeen units each. This gives you six residences per phase per segment, or three actual users per phase-segment. More likely this would happen to a block of 600 units on five floors with about 30 actual users per phase-segment, or about 6Mb/s each.
Then we add the killer term: on average.
If two of those users are watching the same video feed, they share 12Mb/s for it (and with a compressed video stream would be struggling to use more than about 2, thus freeing up anouther 10Mb for the others). If another happens to have their PC off while they're at work, their 6MB is 100% available to the other 30, ie, 0.2Mb extra each (pecking away at email, IM, IRC or HTML browsing will also use close enough to zero bandwidth, out of 6Mb, for most accounting purposes).
...but iRate has certainly changed my taste in music, and without any paranoia about opening services to the 'net.
...but I have cursed (metamodded against) the idiot who painted this with a "Flamebait" rating.
:-) gramatically correct.
Note to such idiots: modding is not about whether you agree with what's said, it's about how well the poster made their point. This post was well written, made some good points (if not as valid as the author might hope), was on topic and (-: hallelujah!
I'd give it +1 Interesting. Perhaps Slash needs to do something like LXer and break the ratings out into separate agree/disagree, quality/trash scales?
See here for example. And there are a few good arguments against threads entirely (one of them being Linux's ultra-lite fork() implementation, which is of course not portable).
That said, AFAICT the only reason I can see that (AFAIK) no portable native-thread Ruby module has yet been standardised on is that Matz doesn't like the idea.
bruise head, possibly damage head and/or neck.
You can target that too.