No, try tripling that number. Ubuntu alone has 8 different variants. Other distros have similar variants. You need to understand that I have laptops, desktops, ultra-mobile solid state pcs, virtual machines, et al. Not to mention that about 1 in five of my downloads don't pass the checksum test, and need to be downloaded again.
There are these people out there called 'computer guys'. These people build computers for themselves, for friends, and sometimes for a living. I am one of these people. Sometimes I want Ubuntu, sometimes Fedora, and sometimes I want to try a few different distros just to see what works best with the hardware at hand. I regularly download half a dozen Linux distros every month. And thanks to Comcast, each one takes nearly a day to complete.
The only users who are really inconvenienced by traffic shaping are the system abusers.
So do 'system abusers' = 'people who do more than update their facebook page and read email'? You know there are a lot of legitimate torrents out there (like Linux distos). Not everybody surfxors the Interwebs for pr0n and MP3z you know....
Seriously I thought this was another joke post. Taxing out-of-state sales will likely never happen. And if it does, expect a massive increase in the number of hosted servers & PO boxes being used in Alaska, Oregon, Montana, or any of the other 0% sales tax states.
More like widely broadcast. Everybody has been getting these (who's spam filter isn't catching them). It's been on Snopes since this morning (not linking to Snopes in protest of their scriptastic ad pushing).
That makes sense. My thoughts on the word weird were coning from MacBeth. Modern performances usually substitute 'weird' for the words weyard, weyward, or wayward. Always thought that was the origin....
Yeah. The word weird comes from the olde tyme term 'wayward', meaning something unearthly or unnatural. These computers are maybe unusual, but certainly not weird.
Sure is (or at least was). I knew a guy who got into the spammer business about 8 years ago (he's out now). I asked him the same question. He was sending a couple of million emails a day and I figured his cost for bandwidth must have been huge. But he told me it was all about the scheduling. He paid standard residential rates for ADSL and just scheduled his email server to send out no more email at one time than he could before the ISP caught on. Bascially he was just using 100% of the bandwidth he was paying for, whereas most residential users only use a small portion. Of course, as time went on, the ISP tightened their AUP and just flat out told him 'we know you running a mail server from your house and we won't allow it'. But at his peak he said he was making something like $1000/mo. He told me once he calculated his cost per ad was like 1/10000000 (one-billionth) of a cent.
to black or allow incoming one-to-one push-to-talk calls
Seriously? The O and the A aren't even on the same side of the keyboard! This leads me to believe that some actually thinks that's the the proper term... I, on the other hand, am a prefect speller...Oh CARP!
....even without Internet access. There are quite a few applications built in that communicate directly with other XO laptops (ad hoc). My 7 y/o has one and get quite a bit of use out of it - no Internet there either....
Have you ever played UD? You only get 50 moves a day. So I spend a grand total of 5 minutes a day playing this game. I would think that someone who thinks 'you know hat would be fun? simulated,live action, public assassination of zombies!' would peg out anyones nerd-o-meter.
Blizzard has said the tool infringes copyright because it copies the game into RAM in order to avoid detection by anti-cheat software.
That's pretty freakin' weak. Are they gonna sue me because I remembered stuff about the game and told it to a friend? Am I then using my brain to illegally copy game data?
I figured the same as you. I guess they will just wait until the systems finally die and cannot be repaired. Then they can join WSIPC, the school co-op, like the other 98% of the schools WA have done. I would hate to be a student in that district and have to have my records transferred to another district (or State). They would probably present them to the new district as 100's of punch cards.
Well, just because it works doesn't mean it works well. Take a look at the Seattle School Districts' dinosaur VAX systems. Sure they work, but verrrry slowly. And what's more, maintenance is a nightmare and scalability in not an option. I agree that we should avoid trying to reinvent the wheel, but I think updating a wagon wheel with steel belted radial tire is sometimes a good idea.
So you want a means of personal transportation that you can fly and then land back on the ground? Those are called airplanes and I am pretty sure Cessna can set you up with that.
That different because your were being blocked for western capitalist legal reasons. It's only ethically wrong when it's for eastern communist legal reasons. Duh!
Do you mean 'promotions' as in 'getting a different job title'? Like moving from IS Engineer to IS Manager? Because I sure don't want that. I'm a short, fat guy with questionable fashion sense and minimal personal hygiene. And yet I get better reviews and make more money than most of the managers in the company. So I guess how I look was a big factor in me not getting promoted - but it wasn't a factor in making advancement.
"If you smash one bulb then that is not too much of a hazard. However, if you broke five bulbs in a small unventilated room then you might be in short term danger." Like when a heavy bag of groceries smashes an entire box of new CFL's in the backseat of the car while making a sudden stop? Good thing that can never happen...
True statement. But won't a new LED light source usually outlive the person who bought/installed it? Seems that would offset the value/earth-friendliness in LED's favor.
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No, try tripling that number. Ubuntu alone has 8 different variants. Other distros have similar variants. You need to understand that I have laptops, desktops, ultra-mobile solid state pcs, virtual machines, et al. Not to mention that about 1 in five of my downloads don't pass the checksum test, and need to be downloaded again.
There are these people out there called 'computer guys'. These people build computers for themselves, for friends, and sometimes for a living. I am one of these people. Sometimes I want Ubuntu, sometimes Fedora, and sometimes I want to try a few different distros just to see what works best with the hardware at hand. I regularly download half a dozen Linux distros every month. And thanks to Comcast, each one takes nearly a day to complete.
Seriously I thought this was another joke post. Taxing out-of-state sales will likely never happen. And if it does, expect a massive increase in the number of hosted servers & PO boxes being used in Alaska, Oregon, Montana, or any of the other 0% sales tax states.
More like widely broadcast. Everybody has been getting these (who's spam filter isn't catching them). It's been on Snopes since this morning (not linking to Snopes in protest of their scriptastic ad pushing).
That makes sense. My thoughts on the word weird were coning from MacBeth. Modern performances usually substitute 'weird' for the words weyard, weyward, or wayward. Always thought that was the origin....
Yeah. The word weird comes from the olde tyme term 'wayward', meaning something unearthly or unnatural. These computers are maybe unusual, but certainly not weird.
Sure is (or at least was). I knew a guy who got into the spammer business about 8 years ago (he's out now). I asked him the same question. He was sending a couple of million emails a day and I figured his cost for bandwidth must have been huge. But he told me it was all about the scheduling. He paid standard residential rates for ADSL and just scheduled his email server to send out no more email at one time than he could before the ISP caught on. Bascially he was just using 100% of the bandwidth he was paying for, whereas most residential users only use a small portion. Of course, as time went on, the ISP tightened their AUP and just flat out told him 'we know you running a mail server from your house and we won't allow it'. But at his peak he said he was making something like $1000/mo. He told me once he calculated his cost per ad was like 1/10000000 (one-billionth) of a cent.
Are you telling me the evolution of public law enforcement agencies into de facto for-profit corporations has a down side? Say it ain't so!
I, on the other hand, am a prefect speller...Oh CARP!
My son doesn't have Internet access. But I do. But yes, I do have have super powers. Thanks for asking.
....even without Internet access. There are quite a few applications built in that communicate directly with other XO laptops (ad hoc). My 7 y/o has one and get quite a bit of use out of it - no Internet there either....
Yeah I had to read it twice. I thought we were going to have to call Kristo to make a giant condom for this doomsday boner..
Have you ever played UD? You only get 50 moves a day. So I spend a grand total of 5 minutes a day playing this game. I would think that someone who thinks 'you know hat would be fun? simulated,live action, public assassination of zombies!' would peg out anyones nerd-o-meter.
I play Urban Dead often enough, but doing it in real life is very, very sad. At least I know there are bigger nerds than me still in the gene pool.
I figured the same as you. I guess they will just wait until the systems finally die and cannot be repaired. Then they can join WSIPC, the school co-op, like the other 98% of the schools WA have done. I would hate to be a student in that district and have to have my records transferred to another district (or State). They would probably present them to the new district as 100's of punch cards.
Well, just because it works doesn't mean it works well. Take a look at the Seattle School Districts' dinosaur VAX systems. Sure they work, but verrrry slowly. And what's more, maintenance is a nightmare and scalability in not an option. I agree that we should avoid trying to reinvent the wheel, but I think updating a wagon wheel with steel belted radial tire is sometimes a good idea.
Well said. I think I will use this line of reasoning with friend who feel the same way about certain issues.
So you want a means of personal transportation that you can fly and then land back on the ground? Those are called airplanes and I am pretty sure Cessna can set you up with that.
Once I peed out my car window are 50 MPH....I guess you could say I 'whizzed past a string of cities' that day! ZING!
That different because your were being blocked for western capitalist legal reasons. It's only ethically wrong when it's for eastern communist legal reasons. Duh!
Do you mean 'promotions' as in 'getting a different job title'? Like moving from IS Engineer to IS Manager? Because I sure don't want that. I'm a short, fat guy with questionable fashion sense and minimal personal hygiene. And yet I get better reviews and make more money than most of the managers in the company. So I guess how I look was a big factor in me not getting promoted - but it wasn't a factor in making advancement.
"If you smash one bulb then that is not too much of a hazard. However, if you broke five bulbs in a small unventilated room then you might be in short term danger."
Like when a heavy bag of groceries smashes an entire box of new CFL's in the backseat of the car while making a sudden stop? Good thing that can never happen...
True statement. But won't a new LED light source usually outlive the person who bought/installed it? Seems that would offset the value/earth-friendliness in LED's favor.