Plus the fact that as is electricity requires a constant stream of costly inputs to create. Bandwidth, once the infrastructure is down, requires few inputs. Electricity/Water are not equivalent comparisons resource wise.
So I just started taking online classes (started today) and this D2L software seems incredibly inefficient. Clicking on any given item be it content, chat, etc, will consume.25-.75MB. It looks like using online class stuff should add a few more gigs to my usage.
Cripes, I almost forgot all those flippin Revision3 Podcasts I get (among others). There are a lot of great HD podcast out there (most which play fine on my xbox360) and some of these range in at up to a Gig a pop. A quick glance at itunes and it looks like podcasts for me probably eat up another 10GB a week.
In my household we would blow through this. In my house we don't have cable, or dish, or even an antenna. We do have Netflix, and 2 Netflix players (3 when that xbox software comes out). I would estimate we watch these 4-6 hours day (maybe not direct watching but the watch now stuff is great for background noise). By my math those 2 devices alone could eat up 100-125 GB a month based on our useage. We also use hulu and the occasional HD rental from Xbox Live (these can come in at up to 6GB). I dabble in linux so there are the usual torrents to be downloaded, flickr for photos, youtube, internet radio, a good bit of online gaming, skype, etc... Right now I would wager we do 250GB a month, maybe a little more or less depending on activity. Granted I might not be the "average" consumer yet but you can bet your a$$ that I will be soon enough. I am the one paying top dollar for the top tier accounts that should be making them the most profit to build out their network. To be honest I have up to 10Mbit DSL (Iowa Telecom, it actually taps out at about 6.5 Mbit but I'm on a pretty long loop) and I've never heard a peep about useage. I think the telcos tend to have lower speeds but don't oversell their bandwidth as much.
I thought all this Beacon nonsense had been worked out. I have a facebook account that I don't post much on but it's literally the only way some people contact and plan events anymore of my generation.
I bought a ticket to the wargames screening off Fandango and all of a sudden it's posting my purchase to Facebook. I was under the assumption you needed to opt-in to beacon now, I was sure wrong. I dug around and finally was able to turn off this "feature", they don't go out of their way to make it easy.
Scrabulous has been around for years before the brothers put it on facebook anyway. I figure if Mattel or Hasboro or whoever had an issue with Scraboulous they should have taken it up then. It wasn't until it got super popular on facebook that the ol boys came in with swinging the copyright bat. Isn't there something on the books that say corporations can't throw a fit 5 years after the fact and they decide they want in on it. And they aren't going to put it on facebook which is apparently why it became some damn popular in the first place. Way to flub up 2x guys. Just buy scrabulous and hire the brothers, probably make a lot more money.
There's only one group that I trust to be objective and that's T.A.P.S. of Ghosthunters fame. The majority of the time these guys either find no evidence of paranormal activity or real world explanations for the events. They actively try to disprove any particular place as being haunted, but when they do declare a place haunted they usually have some compelling evidence. And they 100% hate orbs, at best they'll grant you an orb might be a visual representation of some bit of energy, 99% of the time they chalk it up to dust. I get orbs on my shots all the time, flick of dust BAM.
They demo'd a silverlight based solution that ran on OS X (and Linux I think) some time ago, Silverlight has long since been released but alas no watch now upgrade. I've emailed them a couple times announcing my disappointment, as a Netflixer of going on 7 years they've gotten a lot of my money so they can spend some of it to support my Mac. Not something I'm going to cancel them over, as they are an incredible value to me, but I'll still be a grumbly fellow about it. I was really excited about the Silverlight solution as it looked to support just about everything, Mac, Windows, Linux, your amiga toaster.
I've been using gametap for a while and if you buy a year's worth it's dirt cheap. I got in on a 60 dollar year. Sam n Max alone is worth that price, let alone all these fantastic classics like Ultima, Zork, Tons of beatumup Arcade games. The Gametap TV is pretty entertaining, having worked in a lab environment I can attest to the humor of Comput3r Lab. The interface works well and you can create favorites lists of games. My only beef is you have to have a network connection to play (games are stored locally but it has to connect to verify your account) but it's almost nowhere I go anymore that doesn't' so it's almost a moot point.
We have a "fine" local co-op here which provides a 512/256 for $40, a 768/512 for $80, and 1024/512 for $100. Unfortunatly the speeds run about 30% less than the rated line speed. I currently am on the second tier, much more than I'd prefer to pay but on the 512/256 things like you tube were a test of my patience, and forgetabout having the wife on trying to view some videos or something. The second teir seems to be more stable, and less latent, I find gaming works a little better even if the wife is youtubing it up. It's listed on my bill as biz basic, so I think they prioritize the traffic higher on it. Regardless it's crazy. They buy their internet from the telco Iowa Telecom next town over which has 4x the speed at half the price. And my old town of about 8000 people has 10Mbit DSL now. Cable sucks rocks too, only good thing about the co-op is that you can call up the tech pretty much direct since there is like 10 people working in the whole company, no talkin to someone in China or 6 states over or whatever. Tech is a nice guy, but I could definatly use a little more bang for my buck.
Clean Access Just runs a check for antivirus software and the latest Windows Patches (there is a mac client in beta). Clean Access doesn't put any constraints persay, but it certainly makes the network a much safer place by making sure folks are properly protected.
Those CSI HD episodes look fantabulous. It chokes my 512 line but if it's between my over compressed cable or super hawt 360 HD downloads, its gunna be the 360. Coincidentally my DSL ISP is my cable provider as well. It's a small co-op that services about 10 small villages. We are lucky we have cable and internet at all so I sorta understand why the cable is so terrible and compressed, same reason it costs so much for fairly slow DSL. But whereas I can deal with slower DSL, I can't deal with mega compressed cable when there is so much better quality available. They've never complained about my usage. The tech is overworked, underpaid, and underequipped. The cable may suck but it's nice to drive down to the "shack" and talk directly with the tech(I swear the company has like 5 employees total) vs. my old Centurytel DSL which was always directed to Tennessee or some random state for support.
As I am unable to get a quality cable signal from my company I have been getting HD and SD shows from my XBOX 360. The HD files are easy over a gig a pop. I subscribe to Gametap and you can be sure I play the hell out of it as does my wife(they let you have multiple users on one paying account). I subscribe to podcasts and browse the YouTube. I download demos and other media from XBOX360. I get Music from iTunes. I listen to internet Radio. I usually have a Linux ISO or fan film torrent going. I have a 512/256 DSL connection and it is tapped out all the time 100% legally. I buy Game downloads whenever its avalable via deliver2mac.com or macgamestore.com. I play a couple WebRPG's and a small MMORPG First Star Online. My TV downloads from the 360 alone likely constitute 20 Gigs, let alone the rest. I would say I could use 40-50 Gigs a week easy and casually in my household just from my wife and I. Granted this is on the upper eshlon of casual but we are using the internet for distribution of media that used to be distributed differently. As HD files become the norm and not the exception I only expect my usage to go up. I use netflix and as soon as they have a reasonable method of getting content online my useage will go up. (the current watch now requires Windows and IE, not gunna happen here guys, I've gave you plenty of bucks over the past 6 years how bout you support a loyal Mac using customer. Yes I have Parallels, no that's not an acceptable solution)
I'd estimate that we use 150-200 GB a month download(which is pretty much maxinating our connection all the time). I would get faster but it is 40 bucks just for this package. Someone who does more than we do I could see 200+ GB a month easy. The ISPs are going to need to get with the program and quick if they expect to remain competitive in the future of online media distribution.
I don't think its that it needs to be banned or not suggested for use as it is a fantastic learning tool, but for an academic paper you can't just go to wikipedia and click copy paste cite and think you have an undergraduate or higher level paper. Wikipedia is amazing because most articles do have a source listing and you can easily get a fair start on a paper from this location to allow you to build your own paper and argument.
Agreed. A good lot of students today don't know how to properly research and write an undergraduate(or higher) level paper. But then these are the same students that are perfectly happy getting a C or lower(which they tended to do). I didn't, and as such on any given day of the last two years of my life I was likely in the library for 2-4 hours researching various topics for papers. Getting your citations alone takes a considerable amount of time if you do it correctly.
Hell I had a China professor in WI that I'm convinced used Wikipedia as his sole source. He was always going on about his "source" but never actually listed a source. Needless to day his info and wikipedia were eerily similar. But we watched movies all day, he said Stalin was a Jerkass and I got an A. Go wikipedia.
Seriously though I would use wikipedia to get a broad base of information to draw on a topic then I would go focus on "hard" sources in the library. While I would never use wikipedia directly as a source it is fantastic for getting a general overview of just about any topic you can think of.
Why even bother. Superior OS. Superior size. Superior warrenty. Superior Software. Superior Price. Seems like the act of trying to scrape together x86 hardware for something equal is more academic than technically useful. Plus it will never be equal as Mac OS X is very much superior to Windows or Linux(my opinion).
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Plus the fact that as is electricity requires a constant stream of costly inputs to create. Bandwidth, once the infrastructure is down, requires few inputs. Electricity/Water are not equivalent comparisons resource wise.
So I just started taking online classes (started today) and this D2L software seems incredibly inefficient. Clicking on any given item be it content, chat, etc, will consume .25-.75MB. It looks like using online class stuff should add a few more gigs to my usage.
Cripes, I almost forgot all those flippin Revision3 Podcasts I get (among others). There are a lot of great HD podcast out there (most which play fine on my xbox360) and some of these range in at up to a Gig a pop. A quick glance at itunes and it looks like podcasts for me probably eat up another 10GB a week.
In my household we would blow through this. In my house we don't have cable, or dish, or even an antenna. We do have Netflix, and 2 Netflix players (3 when that xbox software comes out). I would estimate we watch these 4-6 hours day (maybe not direct watching but the watch now stuff is great for background noise). By my math those 2 devices alone could eat up 100-125 GB a month based on our useage. We also use hulu and the occasional HD rental from Xbox Live (these can come in at up to 6GB). I dabble in linux so there are the usual torrents to be downloaded, flickr for photos, youtube, internet radio, a good bit of online gaming, skype, etc... Right now I would wager we do 250GB a month, maybe a little more or less depending on activity. Granted I might not be the "average" consumer yet but you can bet your a$$ that I will be soon enough. I am the one paying top dollar for the top tier accounts that should be making them the most profit to build out their network. To be honest I have up to 10Mbit DSL (Iowa Telecom, it actually taps out at about 6.5 Mbit but I'm on a pretty long loop) and I've never heard a peep about useage. I think the telcos tend to have lower speeds but don't oversell their bandwidth as much.
I thought all this Beacon nonsense had been worked out. I have a facebook account that I don't post much on but it's literally the only way some people contact and plan events anymore of my generation. I bought a ticket to the wargames screening off Fandango and all of a sudden it's posting my purchase to Facebook. I was under the assumption you needed to opt-in to beacon now, I was sure wrong. I dug around and finally was able to turn off this "feature", they don't go out of their way to make it easy.
Scrabulous has been around for years before the brothers put it on facebook anyway. I figure if Mattel or Hasboro or whoever had an issue with Scraboulous they should have taken it up then. It wasn't until it got super popular on facebook that the ol boys came in with swinging the copyright bat. Isn't there something on the books that say corporations can't throw a fit 5 years after the fact and they decide they want in on it. And they aren't going to put it on facebook which is apparently why it became some damn popular in the first place. Way to flub up 2x guys. Just buy scrabulous and hire the brothers, probably make a lot more money.
There's only one group that I trust to be objective and that's T.A.P.S. of Ghosthunters fame. The majority of the time these guys either find no evidence of paranormal activity or real world explanations for the events. They actively try to disprove any particular place as being haunted, but when they do declare a place haunted they usually have some compelling evidence. And they 100% hate orbs, at best they'll grant you an orb might be a visual representation of some bit of energy, 99% of the time they chalk it up to dust. I get orbs on my shots all the time, flick of dust BAM.
They demo'd a silverlight based solution that ran on OS X (and Linux I think) some time ago, Silverlight has long since been released but alas no watch now upgrade. I've emailed them a couple times announcing my disappointment, as a Netflixer of going on 7 years they've gotten a lot of my money so they can spend some of it to support my Mac. Not something I'm going to cancel them over, as they are an incredible value to me, but I'll still be a grumbly fellow about it. I was really excited about the Silverlight solution as it looked to support just about everything, Mac, Windows, Linux, your amiga toaster.
I've been using gametap for a while and if you buy a year's worth it's dirt cheap. I got in on a 60 dollar year. Sam n Max alone is worth that price, let alone all these fantastic classics like Ultima, Zork, Tons of beatumup Arcade games. The Gametap TV is pretty entertaining, having worked in a lab environment I can attest to the humor of Comput3r Lab. The interface works well and you can create favorites lists of games. My only beef is you have to have a network connection to play (games are stored locally but it has to connect to verify your account) but it's almost nowhere I go anymore that doesn't' so it's almost a moot point.
We have a "fine" local co-op here which provides a 512/256 for $40, a 768/512 for $80, and 1024/512 for $100. Unfortunatly the speeds run about 30% less than the rated line speed. I currently am on the second tier, much more than I'd prefer to pay but on the 512/256 things like you tube were a test of my patience, and forgetabout having the wife on trying to view some videos or something. The second teir seems to be more stable, and less latent, I find gaming works a little better even if the wife is youtubing it up. It's listed on my bill as biz basic, so I think they prioritize the traffic higher on it. Regardless it's crazy. They buy their internet from the telco Iowa Telecom next town over which has 4x the speed at half the price. And my old town of about 8000 people has 10Mbit DSL now. Cable sucks rocks too, only good thing about the co-op is that you can call up the tech pretty much direct since there is like 10 people working in the whole company, no talkin to someone in China or 6 states over or whatever. Tech is a nice guy, but I could definatly use a little more bang for my buck.
Clean Access Just runs a check for antivirus software and the latest Windows Patches (there is a mac client in beta). Clean Access doesn't put any constraints persay, but it certainly makes the network a much safer place by making sure folks are properly protected.
Those CSI HD episodes look fantabulous. It chokes my 512 line but if it's between my over compressed cable or super hawt 360 HD downloads, its gunna be the 360. Coincidentally my DSL ISP is my cable provider as well. It's a small co-op that services about 10 small villages. We are lucky we have cable and internet at all so I sorta understand why the cable is so terrible and compressed, same reason it costs so much for fairly slow DSL. But whereas I can deal with slower DSL, I can't deal with mega compressed cable when there is so much better quality available. They've never complained about my usage. The tech is overworked, underpaid, and underequipped. The cable may suck but it's nice to drive down to the "shack" and talk directly with the tech(I swear the company has like 5 employees total) vs. my old Centurytel DSL which was always directed to Tennessee or some random state for support.
As I am unable to get a quality cable signal from my company I have been getting HD and SD shows from my XBOX 360. The HD files are easy over a gig a pop. I subscribe to Gametap and you can be sure I play the hell out of it as does my wife(they let you have multiple users on one paying account). I subscribe to podcasts and browse the YouTube. I download demos and other media from XBOX360. I get Music from iTunes. I listen to internet Radio. I usually have a Linux ISO or fan film torrent going. I have a 512/256 DSL connection and it is tapped out all the time 100% legally. I buy Game downloads whenever its avalable via deliver2mac.com or macgamestore.com. I play a couple WebRPG's and a small MMORPG First Star Online. My TV downloads from the 360 alone likely constitute 20 Gigs, let alone the rest. I would say I could use 40-50 Gigs a week easy and casually in my household just from my wife and I. Granted this is on the upper eshlon of casual but we are using the internet for distribution of media that used to be distributed differently. As HD files become the norm and not the exception I only expect my usage to go up. I use netflix and as soon as they have a reasonable method of getting content online my useage will go up. (the current watch now requires Windows and IE, not gunna happen here guys, I've gave you plenty of bucks over the past 6 years how bout you support a loyal Mac using customer. Yes I have Parallels, no that's not an acceptable solution)
I'd estimate that we use 150-200 GB a month download(which is pretty much maxinating our connection all the time). I would get faster but it is 40 bucks just for this package. Someone who does more than we do I could see 200+ GB a month easy. The ISPs are going to need to get with the program and quick if they expect to remain competitive in the future of online media distribution.
I don't think its that it needs to be banned or not suggested for use as it is a fantastic learning tool, but for an academic paper you can't just go to wikipedia and click copy paste cite and think you have an undergraduate or higher level paper. Wikipedia is amazing because most articles do have a source listing and you can easily get a fair start on a paper from this location to allow you to build your own paper and argument.
Agreed. A good lot of students today don't know how to properly research and write an undergraduate(or higher) level paper. But then these are the same students that are perfectly happy getting a C or lower(which they tended to do). I didn't, and as such on any given day of the last two years of my life I was likely in the library for 2-4 hours researching various topics for papers. Getting your citations alone takes a considerable amount of time if you do it correctly.
Hell I had a China professor in WI that I'm convinced used Wikipedia as his sole source. He was always going on about his "source" but never actually listed a source. Needless to day his info and wikipedia were eerily similar. But we watched movies all day, he said Stalin was a Jerkass and I got an A. Go wikipedia. Seriously though I would use wikipedia to get a broad base of information to draw on a topic then I would go focus on "hard" sources in the library. While I would never use wikipedia directly as a source it is fantastic for getting a general overview of just about any topic you can think of.
.02 Per MB, dime a song on average.
Apple has a 14 day refund policy for new product releases, you should be able to call them and get refunded some difference with in a two week frame.
Why even bother. Superior OS. Superior size. Superior warrenty. Superior Software. Superior Price. Seems like the act of trying to scrape together x86 hardware for something equal is more academic than technically useful. Plus it will never be equal as Mac OS X is very much superior to Windows or Linux(my opinion).
Sci-fi aired parts one and two last night(Thursday) to ramp up for the new series.