I'm guessing that you're talking about a 711 box or unipack or such, though it doesn't matter.
If they bundled the terminator (or whatever) with the chassis that was just plain poor planning, They already had per-country power cables -- they should have been combined.
The FCC allows the cablecos to routinely rape their monopolized customers. The FDA allows nutrasweet (and meat for that matter) to be sold as food.
Neither has any substantial credibility.
... and yet we STILL have the madness of a capslock key (which nobody ever uses) where the control key should be, and a tiny control key down in the corner. Yeah I know I can remap them, but it's still stupidy.
This was true 10 years ago when people actually used Usenet, and was the justification then for the costs and hassles of trying to keep up with the constantly-growing article volume.
I work for a large NSP/ISP and like Fez above I can attest to the fact that the number of both customers and individuals who care about Usenet at all has plummeted. There are a few idiots out there who continue to mistake Usenet for a large-binary distribution system, posting images of CD's and DVD's to alt.binaries groups.
Filtering KP from Usenet has long been a slippery slope. It masquerades in all sorts of groups, some named obviously and some not (alt.asparagus anyone?), and legal types warn that blocking some set of groups is an implicit claim that the rest are clean, with liability potential.
Building amplifiers. In high school.
Not all parents are millionaires, and few kids have this sort of opportunity. Where exactly do you expect a kid to learn how to solder electronics?
The pricing is due to several factors:
o Clueless government tariffs
o Distance-sensitive pricing, like you'd have with a PTP DS1. This adds up quickly. Note that telcos treat and provision ISDN like a POTS line, and if you have to backhaul it to a different exchange, that jacks the heck out of the pricing.
o Telcos, *if* you can find someone to talk to who can even *spell* ISDN, are used to selling it to businesses with more money than brains, ie., ones who 15 years thought video conferencing was a good idea.
I'm not sure that one can even buy new ISDN routers in the US. I had to get mine used on eBay.
but it is a hell of a lot better than dial up
ISDN *IS* dialup. In August 2005 I moved to a place where neither DSL nor cable connectivity was available (thanks to Comlast and Verizon being lazy) and I had ISDN again for over a year. Finding someone in Verizon who knew anything at all about ISDN was a challenge, and they told me that they had 3 people for the entire US as contacts for ISDN service. The tough part was finding an NSP -- only two had local numbers to call. Dialup providers may well use BRI's to bring in their lines, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're set up to provision ISDN calls (much less 2D MPPP calls) on them.
I have a "more expensive plan". They're clearly throttling certain types of traffic at a level way below 800kbit. Other types of traffic can approach the advertised limits.
In the end I think I prefer the PTP circuit I used to have -- lower theoretical bandwidth, but no "traffic shaping".
Cancer is only the second biggest killer, heart disease kills more people of ALL races. More black people die of cancer than all races combined die of AIDS. ... and a substantial portion of all three are self-inflicted.
A movie so bad that not even Kate Winslett's tits can save it. Ah, one of the two highlights of the movie. Don't you mean *two* of the highlights?;)
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I've come to the conclusion that unless you're rich and can afford business / first class seats, trying to use a laptop on a plane is a best frustrating and at worst fatal, when the jackass in front of you slams its seat back without warning -- the top of your display wedges in the recess from the tray table and SNAP!. Last time I barely got my PB pulled forward in time.
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We have -- that doesn't mean that it's true. There's a good argument that petroleum was actually formed with the planet and in fact has leached upwards. http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Hot-Biosphere-Thomas-Gold/dp/0387985468
so I assume that the idiots simply are a very vocal minority. Clearly you've never driven in the Los Angeles area ;)
I'm guessing that you're talking about a 711 box or unipack or such, though it doesn't matter. If they bundled the terminator (or whatever) with the chassis that was just plain poor planning, They already had per-country power cables -- they should have been combined.
The FCC allows the cablecos to routinely rape their monopolized customers. The FDA allows nutrasweet (and meat for that matter) to be sold as food. Neither has any substantial credibility.
Indeed -- the first few seasons of Stargate SG1 demonstrate this clearly.
Forget napkins -- what about kwatloos?
Not crushed, just trod upon.
... and yet we STILL have the madness of a capslock key (which nobody ever uses) where the control key should be, and a tiny control key down in the corner. Yeah I know I can remap them, but it's still stupidy.
What the heck kind of plan do you have that charges you $2.70/minute?
People don't change or turn it all around. They just don't. Weasels in high school are still weasels 20 years later. Bums are still bums.
This was true 10 years ago when people actually used Usenet, and was the justification then for the costs and hassles of trying to keep up with the constantly-growing article volume. I work for a large NSP/ISP and like Fez above I can attest to the fact that the number of both customers and individuals who care about Usenet at all has plummeted. There are a few idiots out there who continue to mistake Usenet for a large-binary distribution system, posting images of CD's and DVD's to alt.binaries groups. Filtering KP from Usenet has long been a slippery slope. It masquerades in all sorts of groups, some named obviously and some not (alt.asparagus anyone?), and legal types warn that blocking some set of groups is an implicit claim that the rest are clean, with liability potential.
Building amplifiers. In high school. Not all parents are millionaires, and few kids have this sort of opportunity. Where exactly do you expect a kid to learn how to solder electronics?
You've never met Brad Cox, have you? Or had to work with him?
There is in fact a step three: Pay the MPAA a few grand for that movie when they sue you.
Well, VLC works much of the time, at least. On 5-10% of the files I throw at it, though, it wedges and has to be forcibly killed.
The pricing is due to several factors: o Clueless government tariffs o Distance-sensitive pricing, like you'd have with a PTP DS1. This adds up quickly. Note that telcos treat and provision ISDN like a POTS line, and if you have to backhaul it to a different exchange, that jacks the heck out of the pricing. o Telcos, *if* you can find someone to talk to who can even *spell* ISDN, are used to selling it to businesses with more money than brains, ie., ones who 15 years thought video conferencing was a good idea. I'm not sure that one can even buy new ISDN routers in the US. I had to get mine used on eBay.
Consider how well the cane toad introduction worked in Australia to control cane beetles.
but it is a hell of a lot better than dial up ISDN *IS* dialup. In August 2005 I moved to a place where neither DSL nor cable connectivity was available (thanks to Comlast and Verizon being lazy) and I had ISDN again for over a year. Finding someone in Verizon who knew anything at all about ISDN was a challenge, and they told me that they had 3 people for the entire US as contacts for ISDN service. The tough part was finding an NSP -- only two had local numbers to call. Dialup providers may well use BRI's to bring in their lines, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're set up to provision ISDN calls (much less 2D MPPP calls) on them.
I have a "more expensive plan". They're clearly throttling certain types of traffic at a level way below 800kbit. Other types of traffic can approach the advertised limits. In the end I think I prefer the PTP circuit I used to have -- lower theoretical bandwidth, but no "traffic shaping".
And YOU don't understand that "raw" is a word not an acronym, and shouldn't be uppercased.
What's it like *after* the first half hour, though, when the rampant core leaks bloat the vsize to two gig?
I've come to the conclusion that unless you're rich and can afford business / first class seats, trying to use a laptop on a plane is a best frustrating and at worst fatal, when the jackass in front of you slams its seat back without warning -- the top of your display wedges in the recess from the tray table and SNAP!. Last time I barely got my PB pulled forward in time.
/. edited my text. ^35mpg^less than 35mpg