China has a looming issue that I think a lot of people forget. Their population is aging, fast. With their one child per houshold initiative their average age is being pushed even higher. Taking care of half a billion retired citizens is going to become a serious strain on their economy. It will be interesting to see what type off effect this will have.
The investment may not be worth it to you but...I get great qualtiy, original programming on my HD channels. National Geographic HD and Discovery HD most always have something interesting on. We also have PBS HD and A&E HD which are both good too. There is good quality programming out there. It's just that the S/N ratio is so high.
I have woken up on several occasions only to realize I had been having a dream based loosely on the story being discussed at the time on the particular news netowrk. I have been falling asleep to major news networks for the last 5-6 years and have often wondered if the news I hear while sleeping affects my dreams. Correlation != Causation, I know, but it still has made me wonder.
Pffftt...yeah! What a noob. Everyone knows that overloading the operators so they can accept complex number arguments and return the appropiate result is the obvious thing to do.
Same problem where I live in Northern Virginia. I reside in the only county (Stafford) in NoVA that hasn't granted Verizon a franchise to provide service. Hicksville, just south of me and Ghettotown, just north of me have had it for the last year or two.
no matter your opinion on if the Iraq war (or even war at all) is justified it should be obvious why any nation would want to be able to say only robots got blown up or damaged.
Lets not forget the hundreds of billions of dollars required to wage war. Take (our) loss of life out of the equation but it still costs an ass load to go to war.
Yes, laptop hard drives do fail more often. I help support around 500 users between two offices. One is ALL laptops and the other is primarily desktops. In the laptop office I am working with at least 1 hard drive problem a month. The desktop office may have a couple issues a year.
Agreed. On both points. I will add...the game plays a lot faster than COD2 with the newer automatic weapons. People new to the series (ommitting COD3) may be frustrated at first until they get up to speed. Think Counter Strike.
I understand what you are trying to say. The difference is, as an American citizen, I am protected under American law. The problem is that the American government is violating its own constitution. Unfortunately, the Constitution does not protect non-American citizens. It may not be right but I am unaware of a country who puts safegaurds to privacy in place for non citizens. In a perfect world no government would spy on any other government or persons for that matter. As an American I can only stand up for the safegaurds our constitution has put in place for us as American citizens.
According to the link Seagate is ready to cover their bases. I remember reading a Forbes article several months back with the CEO of Seagate talking about jumping in the flash game.
Duh...I know that. My point being is that often times the bottleneck is NOT the connection to your home. In your case, it appears it would take forever regardless. I NEVER get download speeds approaching torrent download speeds which tells ME my bottleneck isn't my connection but rather somewhere further up the chain.
This makes 7+GB downloads intolerable, especially since most of us have alternate uses for our internet service. Yes you can get a browser that will throttle your download in order to allow other traffic, but that just slows down the download.
Sounds like a good case for a torrent. The fastests straight downloads I get hover between 200-400kbps. With torrents I've seen as high as 2Mbps on the more popular torrents...distros and such.
It is my understanding that the compression ratio on satellite is much higher than with land based transmission. If that is how they're really "increasing" capacity then I think I'll pass. Like someone else said, the analog side of cable takes a sizable chunk of the available bandwidth.
Back in the 1990's, I used to pay $23 a month for phone service and $36 for cable. Now I pay a combined total for cable, phone and internet of $160 per month. That is way above inflation.
Puhlease...I don't like the cable company as much as the next guy but it appears your cable bill has jumped so much because you've added quite a few more channels. You were paying $36 for basic cable. The rate now is around $45. If it's too damn expensive for you than drop some of your packages. Nice try though.
Read this article...mainly the one pertaining to NSA contracts and you'll see part of the reason why the NSA is having "money issues". The contracters and current NSA administration are deep in each others pockets. They skirt on the edge of legality but they ride so close to the line it almost makes you sick.
If it actually was an employee I imagine they would covered under some type of whistleblower clause. Do work for this law firm or something? Is this really the first question that came to your mind? Fuck those people. How do they sleep at night? How ironic it would be if one of their kids was an aspiring engineer/techy.
I keep telling my car buddies this (considering IT), some of them mechanics. The mindsets are very similar and you will find a lot of IT people who are also car junkies.
Here goes my anecdotal evidence. I have 3 friends who bought the system right around launch. Two are dead including mine. Well, mine was dead. I made sure to provide the Xbox with sufficient airflow and kept the brick off the ground. Did some searching on the internet and I was able to fix the system for $8 in parts from the local hardware store. It involves modding how the heatsinks are secured to the board. Also with some index cards and electrical tape you can improve airflow over the cpu/gpu heatsinks.
Anyway, what really bugs me about the whole thing is this...they essentially admitted a widespread issue with the pre-Jan 2001 systems when they extended warranties specifically for those early launch systems. A few weeks later they came out and extended the warranty for ALL systems. My problem was clearly a case of bad manufacturing...specifically with the solder joints on the gpu. What kind of crap is that. I guess this is what happens when you give contracts to the lowest bidder.
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China has a looming issue that I think a lot of people forget. Their population is aging, fast. With their one child per houshold initiative their average age is being pushed even higher. Taking care of half a billion retired citizens is going to become a serious strain on their economy. It will be interesting to see what type off effect this will have.
The investment may not be worth it to you but...I get great qualtiy, original programming on my HD channels. National Geographic HD and Discovery HD most always have something interesting on. We also have PBS HD and A&E HD which are both good too. There is good quality programming out there. It's just that the S/N ratio is so high.
I have woken up on several occasions only to realize I had been having a dream based loosely on the story being discussed at the time on the particular news netowrk. I have been falling asleep to major news networks for the last 5-6 years and have often wondered if the news I hear while sleeping affects my dreams. Correlation != Causation, I know, but it still has made me wonder.
To quote the late Mitch Hedberg:
"Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having."
The same can be said for all people suffering from addiction. Have some compassion and perhaps try helping your fellow humans.
Forgot the /sarcasm tag. Oops.
I get it dude! 42KB is all you've lost. You type of people drive me crazy at work.
...the specs are interesting:
- Power Consumption: Max. 1050W, Stand by mode approx. 14W, Power Saving Mode 600W
- Heat Dispersion: 3583.1 BTU
- Screen Size Range: 90 to 300 inches measured diagonally (factory preset to 120")
- Light Output: ANSI 350 lumens (150kHz:50Hz, 6500K), ASNI 280 lumens (15kHz:60Hz, 6500K), Peak White 1300 lumens, All white 500 lumens
What do the other light outputs mean? If you can afford the projector, paying someone to calibrate it every now and then is trivial.
Pffftt...yeah! What a noob. Everyone knows that overloading the operators so they can accept complex number arguments and return the appropiate result is the obvious thing to do.
Same problem where I live in Northern Virginia. I reside in the only county (Stafford) in NoVA that hasn't granted Verizon a franchise to provide service. Hicksville, just south of me and Ghettotown, just north of me have had it for the last year or two.
In America, only old ladies pwn noobs.
We run McAfee Enterprise at my office. The install allows us to disable the on access scanner. Perhaps they'll let you do the same.
Lets not forget the hundreds of billions of dollars required to wage war. Take (our) loss of life out of the equation but it still costs an ass load to go to war.
Only on Slashdot...only no Slashdot.
Yes, laptop hard drives do fail more often. I help support around 500 users between two offices. One is ALL laptops and the other is primarily desktops. In the laptop office I am working with at least 1 hard drive problem a month. The desktop office may have a couple issues a year.
Agreed. On both points. I will add...the game plays a lot faster than COD2 with the newer automatic weapons. People new to the series (ommitting COD3) may be frustrated at first until they get up to speed. Think Counter Strike.
I understand what you are trying to say. The difference is, as an American citizen, I am protected under American law. The problem is that the American government is violating its own constitution. Unfortunately, the Constitution does not protect non-American citizens. It may not be right but I am unaware of a country who puts safegaurds to privacy in place for non citizens. In a perfect world no government would spy on any other government or persons for that matter. As an American I can only stand up for the safegaurds our constitution has put in place for us as American citizens.
According to the link Seagate is ready to cover their bases. I remember reading a Forbes article several months back with the CEO of Seagate talking about jumping in the flash game.
Duh...I know that. My point being is that often times the bottleneck is NOT the connection to your home. In your case, it appears it would take forever regardless. I NEVER get download speeds approaching torrent download speeds which tells ME my bottleneck isn't my connection but rather somewhere further up the chain.
Sounds like a good case for a torrent. The fastests straight downloads I get hover between 200-400kbps. With torrents I've seen as high as 2Mbps on the more popular torrents...distros and such.
It is my understanding that the compression ratio on satellite is much higher than with land based transmission. If that is how they're really "increasing" capacity then I think I'll pass. Like someone else said, the analog side of cable takes a sizable chunk of the available bandwidth.
Puhlease...I don't like the cable company as much as the next guy but it appears your cable bill has jumped so much because you've added quite a few more channels. You were paying $36 for basic cable. The rate now is around $45. If it's too damn expensive for you than drop some of your packages. Nice try though.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/0 3/spyagency200703
If it actually was an employee I imagine they would covered under some type of whistleblower clause. Do work for this law firm or something? Is this really the first question that came to your mind? Fuck those people. How do they sleep at night? How ironic it would be if one of their kids was an aspiring engineer/techy.
I keep telling my car buddies this (considering IT), some of them mechanics. The mindsets are very similar and you will find a lot of IT people who are also car junkies.
Anyway, what really bugs me about the whole thing is this...they essentially admitted a widespread issue with the pre-Jan 2001 systems when they extended warranties specifically for those early launch systems. A few weeks later they came out and extended the warranty for ALL systems. My problem was clearly a case of bad manufacturing...specifically with the solder joints on the gpu. What kind of crap is that. I guess this is what happens when you give contracts to the lowest bidder.