Ha! If I could, I would be downloading all the Slashdot comments in a QWK packet and read them using BlueWave. Of course, Slashdot would have to add some sort of mail door...
It might not be that consistent. It means that the device name will change with every new technology that comes out. pci2#1, then pcie3#4, then usb3#9, then superbus7#2.
Is the author bemoaning the 900GB CAP or praising it? Where I live, with a 3GB CAP (in total) per month, I truely admire what they have in Japan. Even with the CAP.
Not that I religiously dislike Windows, but if you can run Linux on it, it puts a whole new spin on being able to remotely ssh to your robot and issue the "kill" command;-)
It's not as if the Internet is going to be turned off one day and the guys in the hard hats will say "okey folks, turn on the new one!".
The Internet as we know it will always improve a series of small steps and as time goes by it will get faster, and improved. The one year your local Telco will offer 512k DSL lines, the next they suddenly have 4mbit lines available. But inbetween there was 768k, 1024k, etc.
I always knew that Sun's new blackboxes (http://www.sun.com/blackbox) put out so much heat that they're heating the Earth, but I never dreamt that the blackboxes' heat would reach Mars!
I live in South Africa. Like Australia we're geographically far away from most of the "internet content", but unlike Australia our bandwidth costs are astronomical (mainly due to a telecoms monopoly) on the thin fibre links that we have.
But because of the bandwidth situation most SA ISPs have invested in massive cascaded caching infrastructure all over the country and at the so-called logical borders where the links exit to the US, Europe and far East. I continually monitor HTTP headers to check the cached status and easily 70% of the regular content I surf comes from one of the local caches.
Even websites within South Africa are reverse-cached, i.e. the ISPs put caches in at the foreign landing points to speed up access (and lower return bandwidth costs) to foreign surfers.
I sometimes think that the rest of the world has forgotten about caching due to the apparent abundance of bandwidth available in those countries. Maybe we'll see a return of caching polularity?
Tom Yager is clearly ignoring (forgetting?) people with enormous amounts of resources at their disposal, like Mark Shuttleworth, who are determined to make Linux work on the desktop as well as dominate in the server arena. Mr Yager is missing a substantial amount of what-others-have-accomplished insight.
Unless you're furiously browsing, there's no reason to continually use the mouse. Use the keyboard with all its related keyboard shortcuts (yes, you'll have to learn that the tab key moves between edit boxes).
I use the mouse to navigate while browsing and I try not to use the scrollwheel. Rather use PgUp and PgDn (or just the arrow keys) to scroll up and down. Use Alt-Tab to switch taks, Ctrl-P to print and Ctrl-B to enbold text.
I've found that I'm much more productive since learning to navigate menus (even the start menu with Ctrl-ESC).
Applications developers that don't offer keyboard shortcuts for their applications should be shot!
Easter is not in spring and Christmas is not in Winter.
Easter is in April and Christmas is in December.
Spring may in April, but that's only on the Northern Hemisphere. Down on the other side of the world, Autumn starts in April and Christmas is during high summer! Down here we lay on the beach and tan on Christmas day.
Junkie:Do you wanna buy some death tubes? Jedi master: You don't want to sell me death tubes. Junkie: I don't want to sell you death tubes. Jedi master: You want to go home and rethink your life. Junkie: I want to go home and rethink my life.
A scanner is also effectively converting analog video signals (albeit not moving pictures) into digital signals.
News at 11: "And in an unprecedented development today, eBay saw pricing of second hand scanners skyrocket..."
-deckert
Man, these people are so dumb. I asked first if it was a virus and my friend told me "lol, no its not a virus" and I just *knew* I was safe.
Always ask first!;-)
Well excuse me if you get caught by a silly ploy like this. Getting caught in a ploy like this shows that you're either greedy or gullible (or both).;-)
As an African (specifically a South African), it always amuses me how the "western world" sees only insect ridden people starving to death when they think of Africa. Africa is not as seen through the eyes of the producers (and participants) of Survivor. Yes, Africa has a lot of problems that it is actively trying to overcome, but Africa has enourmous potential and has some of the richest ore, diamond and coal deposits in the world.
You only have to look at some of our achievements to see how misled the average westener is. Ask yourself these questions: Who was the *second* space tourist (and the first to perform actual useful scientific experiments for the kids in Africa)? Who developed the safest nuclear reactor (the pepple-bed reactor) in the world? Who pioneered and actively uses a process to generate fuel for card from coal? Who has developed the technology to create the deepest mines in the world? These are but a few of the many things coming out of Africa.
Africa has the most beautiful landscapes in the world, not to mention rich vistas of animal life. We receive 1000's of tourists that come to see real african elephants, lions, rhinoceros, etc. The western world has to come here for that experience.
Africa has many well-established, modern cellular networks that operate on a single standard (the GSM standard) in just about all the african countries. South Africa alone has 43 million people of which more than 20 million have cellphones. Does this sound like the "starving kids" picture you get fed by the media every day?
Countries like South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Uganda have stable and growing economies. There are sore thumbs to the picture, but they remain thumbs, and they will be sorted out by the rest of the body that is Africa. If the west would stop meddling in African affairs, the corruption level would be a lot lower, since there wouldn't be any bribary money to throw around.
More on topic: if Microsoft thinks that Africans don't know how to operate OSs and software, they (MS) have another thing coming. If they don't want to market and make money here, there will be 100's of millions of Africans growing up with Linux, learning to rather work with Linux (or any other manufacturer that bothers to market their stuff here). I agree with another poster in the thread.. MS's assumption is simply racist.
Africa is certainly not utopia, but it's not nearly as backwater as people are led to believe either. Let's rather say it has healthy diversity:-)
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The best thing you can do is ask for your money back .. oh wait ...
--deckert
Ha! If I could, I would be downloading all the Slashdot comments in a QWK packet and read them using BlueWave. Of course, Slashdot would have to add some sort of mail door ...
--deckert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE6r8L-YrrM
--deckert
It might not be that consistent. It means that the device name will change with every new technology that comes out. pci2#1, then pcie3#4, then usb3#9, then superbus7#2.
--deckert
Is the author bemoaning the 900GB CAP or praising it? Where I live, with a 3GB CAP (in total) per month, I truely admire what they have in Japan. Even with the CAP.
--deckert
--deckert
The Internet as we know it will always improve a series of small steps and as time goes by it will get faster, and improved. The one year your local Telco will offer 512k DSL lines, the next they suddenly have 4mbit lines available. But inbetween there was 768k, 1024k, etc.
--deckert
ummm... so they didn't use long-play tapes then.
I always knew that Sun's new blackboxes (http://www.sun.com/blackbox) put out so much heat that they're heating the Earth, but I never dreamt that the blackboxes' heat would reach Mars!
--deckert
But because of the bandwidth situation most SA ISPs have invested in massive cascaded caching infrastructure all over the country and at the so-called logical borders where the links exit to the US, Europe and far East. I continually monitor HTTP headers to check the cached status and easily 70% of the regular content I surf comes from one of the local caches.
Even websites within South Africa are reverse-cached, i.e. the ISPs put caches in at the foreign landing points to speed up access (and lower return bandwidth costs) to foreign surfers.
I sometimes think that the rest of the world has forgotten about caching due to the apparent abundance of bandwidth available in those countries. Maybe we'll see a return of caching polularity?
--deckert
See how well Spamhous works? ;-)
--deckert
--deckert
--deckert
I use the mouse to navigate while browsing and I try not to use the scrollwheel. Rather use PgUp and PgDn (or just the arrow keys) to scroll up and down. Use Alt-Tab to switch taks, Ctrl-P to print and Ctrl-B to enbold text.
I've found that I'm much more productive since learning to navigate menus (even the start menu with Ctrl-ESC).
Applications developers that don't offer keyboard shortcuts for their applications should be shot!
--deckert
Because they can't afford their own licenses? ;-)
--deckert
Easter is in April and Christmas is in December.
Spring may in April, but that's only on the Northern Hemisphere. Down on the other side of the world, Autumn starts in April and Christmas is during high summer! Down here we lay on the beach and tan on Christmas day.
--deckert
Oh wait
--deckert
Junkie:Do you wanna buy some death tubes?
Jedi master: You don't want to sell me death tubes.
Junkie: I don't want to sell you death tubes.
Jedi master: You want to go home and rethink your life.
Junkie: I want to go home and rethink my life.
Oh... you mean depth tubes....
So now he must sue the band (or bands) that played the music that made hime deaf? Uh-huh...
A scanner is also effectively converting analog video signals (albeit not moving pictures) into digital signals. News at 11: "And in an unprecedented development today, eBay saw pricing of second hand scanners skyrocket..." -deckert
Man, these people are so dumb. I asked first if it was a virus and my friend told me "lol, no its not a virus" and I just *knew* I was safe. Always ask first! ;-)
You only have to look at some of our achievements to see how misled the average westener is. Ask yourself these questions: Who was the *second* space tourist (and the first to perform actual useful scientific experiments for the kids in Africa)? Who developed the safest nuclear reactor (the pepple-bed reactor) in the world? Who pioneered and actively uses a process to generate fuel for card from coal? Who has developed the technology to create the deepest mines in the world? These are but a few of the many things coming out of Africa.
Africa has the most beautiful landscapes in the world, not to mention rich vistas of animal life. We receive 1000's of tourists that come to see real african elephants, lions, rhinoceros, etc. The western world has to come here for that experience.
Africa has many well-established, modern cellular networks that operate on a single standard (the GSM standard) in just about all the african countries. South Africa alone has 43 million people of which more than 20 million have cellphones. Does this sound like the "starving kids" picture you get fed by the media every day?
Countries like South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Uganda have stable and growing economies. There are sore thumbs to the picture, but they remain thumbs, and they will be sorted out by the rest of the body that is Africa. If the west would stop meddling in African affairs, the corruption level would be a lot lower, since there wouldn't be any bribary money to throw around.
More on topic: if Microsoft thinks that Africans don't know how to operate OSs and software, they (MS) have another thing coming. If they don't want to market and make money here, there will be 100's of millions of Africans growing up with Linux, learning to rather work with Linux (or any other manufacturer that bothers to market their stuff here). I agree with another poster in the thread.. MS's assumption is simply racist.
Africa is certainly not utopia, but it's not nearly as backwater as people are led to believe either. Let's rather say it has healthy diversity :-)
Not really. Buy your CD leaglly, rip it to MP3 and listen to it on your Nomad/Yepp/etc.