I don't think that watching TV is easy. There is all that mental preparation to counteract the expected fall in brain activity due to high levels of bogon absorption. Then the weeks of rehabilitation after watching TV, which should be booked in advance to ensure no lasting effects. No, watching TV is definitely not an easy matter.
By the well tried method of "jumping to conclusions", one infers that I do not exist when the world isn't looking. This is a bit of a bummer as I do most of my best work when the world isn't looking.
> That is *precisely* why he started writing about dogs instead of geeks.
> He found out that geeks are smart, and we don't accept bullshit, lies, or false sentimentality.
Dogs don't care what you say so long as you feed them... Actually they arn't all that different from geeks.
Meanwhile, I hear that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis are competing to play the dog.
I agree and I have no bandwidth issues. Flash is no more acceptable than RealPlayer or any other "multimedia" infestation on my computer. When I see "flash plugin required" I leave the web-site, never to return.
I have worked at two different (British) universities in the last five years and network traffic was controlled in both cases. The universities' networks are funded, primarily, by public taxation and the bandwidth is provided for purpose of the students following their stated courses. As the universities are accountable to the public for the (mis)use of funding, it is right that the bandwidth usage should be restricted to that required for the course being taken. Those students who wish to use additional bandwidth are at liberty to purchase it from any ISP. Disputes are settled by asking the student to get his/her (staff) supervisor to confirm that access to the disputed site is required for the course.
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I don't think that watching TV is easy. There is all that mental preparation to counteract the expected fall in brain activity due to high levels of bogon absorption. Then the weeks of rehabilitation after watching TV, which should be booked in advance to ensure no lasting effects. No, watching TV is definitely not an easy matter.
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By the well tried method of "jumping to conclusions", one infers that I do not exist when the world isn't looking. This is a bit of a bummer as I do most of my best work when the world isn't looking.
"A steep learning curve" would occur when you gain a lot of knowledge quickly so that would be good, wouldn't it?
> That is *precisely* why he started writing about dogs instead of geeks.
> He found out that geeks are smart, and we don't accept bullshit, lies, or false sentimentality.
Dogs don't care what you say so long as you feed them... Actually they arn't all that different from geeks.
Meanwhile, I hear that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis are competing to play the dog.
I agree and I have no bandwidth issues. Flash is no more acceptable than RealPlayer or any other "multimedia" infestation on my computer. When I see "flash plugin required" I leave the web-site, never to return.
I have worked at two different (British) universities in the last five years and network traffic was controlled in both cases. The universities' networks are funded, primarily, by public taxation and the bandwidth is provided for purpose of the students following their stated courses. As the universities are accountable to the public for the (mis)use of funding, it is right that the bandwidth usage should be restricted to that required for the course being taken. Those students who wish to use additional bandwidth are at liberty to purchase it from any ISP. Disputes are settled by asking the student to get his/her (staff) supervisor to confirm that access to the disputed site is required for the course.