Agreed, but I'd take microwave/waterborn silliness over the cellphone sonar system silliness. One of the reasons I liked "Begins" is because it didn't overly rely on technology, and the technology it did have was (mostly) based on reality. They seemed to throw most of that out the window for the sequel.
I'm not sure how much storage we have dedicated to email (we use Exchange/Outlook), but my building has 1500+ users. We have a standard quota of about 70MB of server space allocated to each user. Past that, they are expected to archive on THEIR OWN MACHINE. When they approach the server quota limit, they are sent a warning message. When they exceed the limit their mailbox is locked until it is cleaned out by the user.
Obviously, some users have bigger accounts, but it's not the majority by any means.
By doing this, it eases the stress on our network and storage limitations. 1500 people want a lot of storage, and the government just doesn't provide the money. We also roll out Outlook with "Auto Archive" enabled to help out with all this.
Everybody knows that it is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, not to be confused with the first cinematic feature of the series. Worst... submission.... ever.;)
...for a wedding this weekend. Being the geek I am, I asked him about his internet connection. Currently, the only options where I live is $50/month for Comcast 3/384 cable, or $50 for slower DSL.
He says he pays $50 a month for a DSL line that gets 34 megabits down and 5 megabits up.
Today I was asked by someone why our available lines are so expensive and offer so much less bandwidth than that of some other countries. I said I didn't know. Now I have a slightly better idea.
...not to buy an Xbox 360 for awhile. No streaming content from a PC unless it's got the Media Center version of XP installed, packages sold WITHOUT the HDD meaning developers can't utilize it for game performance, a measly 20GB drive in the version that DOES come with an HDD...
I was actually thinking about buying one on release day when I heard about the wi-fi capabilities, about the streaming media center potential... really, I wanted something that doubled as a media center for my entertainment center. I wanted to be able to stream music and movies and content from my PC. I wanted great game performance. And the $299 price tag was icing on the cake.
And then I hear about wifi problems, about seriosly disappointing graphics hardware, about hard drives that developers can't utilize any better than a memory card, and about needing a Media Center PC to stream content. Oh, and the "good" version of the Xbox is actually $400. Screw that. I would have thought MS had learned from the first Xbox and listened to the consumers. I guess not. I think this is going to fail and will probably be MS' last venture into the console world.
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Agreed, but I'd take microwave/waterborn silliness over the cellphone sonar system silliness. One of the reasons I liked "Begins" is because it didn't overly rely on technology, and the technology it did have was (mostly) based on reality. They seemed to throw most of that out the window for the sequel.
I'm not sure how much storage we have dedicated to email (we use Exchange/Outlook), but my building has 1500+ users. We have a standard quota of about 70MB of server space allocated to each user. Past that, they are expected to archive on THEIR OWN MACHINE. When they approach the server quota limit, they are sent a warning message. When they exceed the limit their mailbox is locked until it is cleaned out by the user.
Obviously, some users have bigger accounts, but it's not the majority by any means.
By doing this, it eases the stress on our network and storage limitations. 1500 people want a lot of storage, and the government just doesn't provide the money. We also roll out Outlook with "Auto Archive" enabled to help out with all this.
Well, I guess now we know why college kids rarely get cancer.
Everybody knows that it is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, not to be confused with the first cinematic feature of the series. Worst... submission.... ever. ;)
I was wondering if the ground line was a major reason for this. He does not live in Tokyo, but he does live in a nearby suburb of it.
...for a wedding this weekend. Being the geek I am, I asked him about his internet connection. Currently, the only options where I live is $50/month for Comcast 3/384 cable, or $50 for slower DSL.
He says he pays $50 a month for a DSL line that gets 34 megabits down and 5 megabits up.
Today I was asked by someone why our available lines are so expensive and offer so much less bandwidth than that of some other countries. I said I didn't know. Now I have a slightly better idea.
...not to buy an Xbox 360 for awhile. No streaming content from a PC unless it's got the Media Center version of XP installed, packages sold WITHOUT the HDD meaning developers can't utilize it for game performance, a measly 20GB drive in the version that DOES come with an HDD...
I was actually thinking about buying one on release day when I heard about the wi-fi capabilities, about the streaming media center potential... really, I wanted something that doubled as a media center for my entertainment center. I wanted to be able to stream music and movies and content from my PC. I wanted great game performance. And the $299 price tag was icing on the cake.
And then I hear about wifi problems, about seriosly disappointing graphics hardware, about hard drives that developers can't utilize any better than a memory card, and about needing a Media Center PC to stream content. Oh, and the "good" version of the Xbox is actually $400. Screw that. I would have thought MS had learned from the first Xbox and listened to the consumers. I guess not. I think this is going to fail and will probably be MS' last venture into the console world.
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