Stop thinking that WoW takes up a shitload of bandwidth. Web 2.0 bullshit sites eat up more bandwidth with their flashy graphics than WoW does in most cases. Just standing around in a main city in WoW eats up less than 1k/s down and somewhere on the order of 20-50b/s up. I think most people wouldn't want to play WoW on the plane anyways because the latency would make it awful. The GP was most likely actually concerned with a hundred or so people overloading a single routing device on the plane, rendered the internet, something you subsidized with your plane ticket cost, unusable.
I'm running Vista Business With OO.org right now with 512 megs of ram. That is by no means "bags" and I have yet to really see a performance issue. Granted I do have a dual core processor, that doesn't really help with the ram issue. So just because you think as a student you are entitled to a 1000+ dollar computer so you can pirate tons of shit on the universities "phat pipes" doesn't make this computer not a very decent value for its price.
I agree with your view of time-shifting, but one important semantic I think in your arguement about nextflix, is you do pay for a certain number of discs. So when you copy a disc and then return it, you are retaining that disc, while getting another disc beyond what you have paid for in the subscription model.
Well, they don't have a checkbox for it, but there is something close to a checkbox. Under the "Sort By" box, select "PayPal: Last" and viola, you see the non-paypal accepting auctions first.
So inluding a company, that is known to be widely used for online scams, in a list of unallowed payment services somehow isn't protecting their users? I think you misread the statement.
99.99% uptime still isn't great for a server especially one that is essential to you running your OS. That amounts to 525.6 minutes of downtime a year. Granted there is a chance those eight hours will be while you are away or asleep or something, but imagine a everyone not having access to anything for eight hours.
so your solution for a university student, who is probably strapped for cash, is to simply plug a second monitor in to increase workspace without severely increasing the cost? Why not just buy a different machine, like the GGP (or whichever post it was) did? I'm not saying that the macs themselves are shitty, just saying that there are different considerations for university students, and this still doesn't meet everyones needs (As no cheap computer will)
oiy, let me ammend myself before someone else does. The iMac customization page does indeed say that Bluetooth is included, but it is not on the list of features for this new model. So either they decided to not include bluetooth on the feature list (highly improbably) or they need to change their customization page text.
does he want a web-cam? does he video-edit? does he think OS X has a nice UI? Better yet, does you web-cam totting, video-editing, "pretty" machine come with a larger screen that 17"? Yeah, it does, for nearly double the price. Maybe some people base their choices on stuff thats not important to you, like being able to choose a variety of monitors seperately from the phsyical machine itself.
Indeed, I don't think I have ever bought anything at my university sponsored "you-will-really-get-the-best-deal-here" bookstore, regardless of whether or not it was computers, books, or just supplies.
That's not advertising on the part of apple, but the actual article website, so it's not really misleading advertising as it is misleading reporting. But all in all, it really depends on what version of the keyboard you use. You could get the "old school" completely wired setup that has two usb plugs on the keyboard, one of which is usually used for the mouse, since its 1.1. This scenario would indeed leave you with 5 USB ports. Also, directly from the apple customization page for the iMac:
All iMac models ship with a standard wired Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse. You may also choose to upgrade to an Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse since Bluetooth is already built-in to your iMac.
It seems to me that some of these people that do have a high volume of sales do have e-commerce sites, but use eBay as really cheap advertisement. Most regular people look to eBay as one of the first sources when they buy stuff. If the actual sale amount is cheap, then the percentage cut eBay takes isn't much, and the listing fees are constant if you do a high enough volume, which amounts to have much reduced cost of hosting, advertising, developing, and you reach a huge audience.
Depeding on whether or not you went to a state funded university, the loss couldn't be shifted from tuition. In the university system of georgia, parking & transportation is required to be an independant service from the university, and cannot recieve funding from the university (of course, YMMV).
That makes sense, and I whole-heartedly agree, but if I recall correctly, the Summer of Code projects are done on your own time, anywhere you wish, and not in an office. So targeting females wont really improve the work environment, because there really isn't one communal place.
I don't know how well it's going to work. For a coverage range of 30 miles, at theortical maximum of 75 Mbps, that's not much per user. Sometimes my cable connection could get slow in my house, with my other roomates using it, and thats an 8 Mbps connection, wired. Also, does a 30 mile range maximum mean in each direction, so a sphere of radius 30 miles? God I would hate to be on that.
Don't be so quick to discount the cost of failure of software. The classic example being Therac-25, which was responsible for at least five patient deaths.
Well, Clark did write Freenet, which by his own admission is "a means by which information can be shared without fear of censorship of any kind." That being said, said poster you are replying to used Freenet, and saw some amount of child pornography on at least one node. Clark wrote the program, designed to allow anything to be shared / said. This seems to me like he is at least indirectly, but actively, helping spread child pornography. This is quite different than your poor comparisons to AOL and myspace, (I don't know about usenet) which explicitly forbid any sort of child pornography in their EULAs, and I'm pretty sure Myspace forbids anything pornographic period.
But I don't really care, since I neither use Freenet, or have a stake in Clarke's reputation.
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Stop thinking that WoW takes up a shitload of bandwidth. Web 2.0 bullshit sites eat up more bandwidth with their flashy graphics than WoW does in most cases. Just standing around in a main city in WoW eats up less than 1k/s down and somewhere on the order of 20-50b/s up. I think most people wouldn't want to play WoW on the plane anyways because the latency would make it awful. The GP was most likely actually concerned with a hundred or so people overloading a single routing device on the plane, rendered the internet, something you subsidized with your plane ticket cost, unusable.
Depending on his line of work, they may not be all his laptops. I know I only own one of the three laptops I use.
Might have something to do with me turning of the "cool" Aero features.
I'm running Vista Business With OO.org right now with 512 megs of ram. That is by no means "bags" and I have yet to really see a performance issue. Granted I do have a dual core processor, that doesn't really help with the ram issue. So just because you think as a student you are entitled to a 1000+ dollar computer so you can pirate tons of shit on the universities "phat pipes" doesn't make this computer not a very decent value for its price.
Its Illuminati there
Probably because they went through the same accrediation processes that other universities, both public and private, went through.
That was a big fake, I remember seeing a QT video of how the fake pic was made. I'll see if I can dig it up.
I agree with your view of time-shifting, but one important semantic I think in your arguement about nextflix, is you do pay for a certain number of discs. So when you copy a disc and then return it, you are retaining that disc, while getting another disc beyond what you have paid for in the subscription model.
I'm American, and I agree with you. Centre isn't even close to being sentry or any horrible permutation of it.
Well, they don't have a checkbox for it, but there is something close to a checkbox. Under the "Sort By" box, select "PayPal: Last" and viola, you see the non-paypal accepting auctions first.
So inluding a company, that is known to be widely used for online scams, in a list of unallowed payment services somehow isn't protecting their users? I think you misread the statement.
99.99% uptime still isn't great for a server especially one that is essential to you running your OS. That amounts to 525.6 minutes of downtime a year. Granted there is a chance those eight hours will be while you are away or asleep or something, but imagine a everyone not having access to anything for eight hours.
so your solution for a university student, who is probably strapped for cash, is to simply plug a second monitor in to increase workspace without severely increasing the cost? Why not just buy a different machine, like the GGP (or whichever post it was) did? I'm not saying that the macs themselves are shitty, just saying that there are different considerations for university students, and this still doesn't meet everyones needs (As no cheap computer will)
oiy, let me ammend myself before someone else does. The iMac customization page does indeed say that Bluetooth is included, but it is not on the list of features for this new model. So either they decided to not include bluetooth on the feature list (highly improbably) or they need to change their customization page text.
does he want a web-cam? does he video-edit? does he think OS X has a nice UI? Better yet, does you web-cam totting, video-editing, "pretty" machine come with a larger screen that 17"? Yeah, it does, for nearly double the price. Maybe some people base their choices on stuff thats not important to you, like being able to choose a variety of monitors seperately from the phsyical machine itself.
Indeed, I don't think I have ever bought anything at my university sponsored "you-will-really-get-the-best-deal-here" bookstore, regardless of whether or not it was computers, books, or just supplies.
All iMac models ship with a standard wired Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse. You may also choose to upgrade to an Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse since Bluetooth is already built-in to your iMac.
It seems to me that some of these people that do have a high volume of sales do have e-commerce sites, but use eBay as really cheap advertisement. Most regular people look to eBay as one of the first sources when they buy stuff. If the actual sale amount is cheap, then the percentage cut eBay takes isn't much, and the listing fees are constant if you do a high enough volume, which amounts to have much reduced cost of hosting, advertising, developing, and you reach a huge audience.
Depeding on whether or not you went to a state funded university, the loss couldn't be shifted from tuition. In the university system of georgia, parking & transportation is required to be an independant service from the university, and cannot recieve funding from the university (of course, YMMV).
That makes sense, and I whole-heartedly agree, but if I recall correctly, the Summer of Code projects are done on your own time, anywhere you wish, and not in an office. So targeting females wont really improve the work environment, because there really isn't one communal place.
I really hope that was sarcasm, and I'm too tired to detect it...
Irregardless is not a word. Regardless is a word, and probably means what you are trying to say.
I don't know how well it's going to work. For a coverage range of 30 miles, at theortical maximum of 75 Mbps, that's not much per user. Sometimes my cable connection could get slow in my house, with my other roomates using it, and thats an 8 Mbps connection, wired. Also, does a 30 mile range maximum mean in each direction, so a sphere of radius 30 miles? God I would hate to be on that.
Don't be so quick to discount the cost of failure of software. The classic example being Therac-25, which was responsible for at least five patient deaths.
Well, Clark did write Freenet, which by his own admission is "a means by which information can be shared without fear of censorship of any kind." That being said, said poster you are replying to used Freenet, and saw some amount of child pornography on at least one node. Clark wrote the program, designed to allow anything to be shared / said. This seems to me like he is at least indirectly, but actively, helping spread child pornography. This is quite different than your poor comparisons to AOL and myspace, (I don't know about usenet) which explicitly forbid any sort of child pornography in their EULAs, and I'm pretty sure Myspace forbids anything pornographic period. But I don't really care, since I neither use Freenet, or have a stake in Clarke's reputation.