You should be grateful to have a 25/25Mbps line, I've got 5mbps down and 896kbps up connection, and that's the fastest connection available in this particular area. Comcast I suspect is faster, but you have to deal with Comcast and both their shitty service and their cap. What's more, you don't get a private line to the CO, you have to share it, meaning that there's more impact from other people on your block than there is with DSL.
And, I realize that I'm lucky to have the connection I've got, because not too far away and people have even slower connections than what I have. Which wouldn't be quite so infuriating were I not living within a few scant miles of a major IXP. And paying $50 a month for the service because Qwest doesn't feel like upgrading their capacity around here. And why should they? Comcast isn't a strong competitor and they're getting almost as much as if they were providing decent speeds.
Hell, most of the time, I'm not even getting the 5mpbs that they advertise, not anywhere near it. I frequently get about half the advertised speed.
My mom was considering getting a similar service from MLB, but it too turned out to only offer a fraction of the games that were available on TV, meaning that she'd still need to have cable to watch most of the games.
But as long as morons sign up for those sorts of services it's unlikely that we'll get the actual service that they're touting. Sure it does say in the fine print about the exclusions, but when you look at what you're not getting, the service is way too expensive.
I don't think there are. At least around here we've only got 4 carriers if you exclude the carriers which are owned by one of the major carriers, and that's assuming that the AT&T T-Mobile merger doesn't complete.
That's my understanding, and it wouldn't be the first time that the people in charge of licensing got it wrong. I remember Coolio being somewhat pissed about Amish Paradise, but his people signed off on it. Rick James was annoyed about his guys licensing to MC Hammer until he saw the check.
It's one of the things which happens when you allow somebody else to make decisions for you.
It's not just taxes, it's any other form of debt. So, the landlord has to take USD for the rent, and the CC company. It's unlikely that we'll get to the point where you can't use them to buy groceries. Your utilities by law have to take USD as payment for service.
I'm not aware of anybody that requires bitcoins where there isn't a viable alternative.
You could patent the wheel, and the axle and you'd be there. Obviously, there's enough prior art that you couldn't do it, but if you were to be awarded that patent you would indeed get money for all those modes of transportation.
You wouldn't use every smell available in every film. The way I imagine it being used is more like music. Most of the time it's in the background barely noticed as things progress, but from time to time taking center stage.
It's been known for some time that scents have a powerful connection to the human mind, and I can totally see that being used to create a more immersive experience, especially if 3D technology keeps advancing.
Plus, if we ever develop the technology for a genuine holodeck we're really going to want smells as well.
Unfortunately, Linux still doesn't run on FLAC. I've written many letters to Linus and the people over at FLAC, but nobody seems interested in fixing the problem.
Hosting the server is hardly illegal. It's the logical extension of the rights of freedom of assembly and freedom of association. Doesn't matter how badly the FBI wants lulzsec, the constitution does apply.
You can't form cells when you have that few people. I'm not sure how many people are in lulzsec, but all the indications I've seen is that it's less than ten and that includes the noobs who aren't even capable of going into the IRC without compromising themselves.
As opposed to the rampant objectification of men in the popular media? I do have to wonder why it's suddenly such a big deal when it adversely affects women. Mind you that in the US women make up slightly more than half the voting population and have all sorts of rights and protections which don't apply to men.
So, instead they steal property which doesn't belong to them and for which they don't have a warrant? Yeah, that's so much better, I suppose if they aren't going to file through those other machines looking for incriminating evidence either.
As for the operator of the facility, what's wrong with them, why is it that they don't know whose equipment is now missing? They should know whose equipment is where if for no other reasons than inventory and security.
Not that it makes it OK, but where's the facilities responsibility in all this? It seems to me that somebody should have been keeping backups, granted I'm not sure that the service was responsible, but it's just amateurish to have to go and say that you can't get your own server back up because you haven't got backups.
If I were hosting my site with them, I'd be looking for a new place to house my site pronto.
So then the answer is to stop innovating unless everybody else is doing the same thing?
I recently bought a laptop with a Llano chip in it, and I love it, the battery life is great, and the performance in terms of things that people normally do is great as well. This isn't about sour grapes, this is about a benchmark that's lost its way and isn't of particular use. If it's focusing so heavily in the way that it is, I'm not sure how I'd use the scores to figure out what processor to get.
You can get away with that sort of behavior when you're a bit player in the market, but when you've got most of the supply locked up, I don't think there's anyway in which it isn't an antitrust violation to do so. Developers are mostly going to use the one that produces the fastest code on Intel processors because it's the larger part of the market. The odds are good as well that the machines they're using use Intel processors as well.
I've been using a Llano chip recently, and the performance has been a lot better than I was expecting. Because the APU utilizes a Radeon HD 6310 it's not suitable for recent games, but I've found that games up until the last couple years seem to do just fine on it.
I'll wait to see what the performance is like on Windows 8, but Llano has little trouble with Windows 7, the system remains responsive pretty much whatever I'm doing and I rarely feel like I'm waiting around for things that should be done. There's a bit more lag than my desktop, but that sports an AMD dual core that's quite a bit faster and more power hungy.
It would be like accepting Monopoly play money, you can't readily use it to pay for attorneys or server bandwidth, sure there might be somebody that's willing to play a few cents per million for the money, but only to the extent that Parker Brothers doesn't flood the market with new bills and there's no guarantee that anybody will in the future be dealing in it.
Unlike bitcoins, aluminum cans actually have some value to them, even if you don't agree to what it is precisely, there are still uses for aluminum cans other than as a trade in. Bitcoins OTOH barely even exist, when people wake up to the scam, they're not even going to have that much.
Hence why it's so foolish. You'd be marginally better off taking currency from Zimbabwe prior to the government discontinuing it.
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gbps? I'd be happy if Qwest would extend their 40mbps service to our area, right now I'm getting a fraction of that for about the same price.
You should be grateful to have a 25/25Mbps line, I've got 5mbps down and 896kbps up connection, and that's the fastest connection available in this particular area. Comcast I suspect is faster, but you have to deal with Comcast and both their shitty service and their cap. What's more, you don't get a private line to the CO, you have to share it, meaning that there's more impact from other people on your block than there is with DSL.
And, I realize that I'm lucky to have the connection I've got, because not too far away and people have even slower connections than what I have. Which wouldn't be quite so infuriating were I not living within a few scant miles of a major IXP. And paying $50 a month for the service because Qwest doesn't feel like upgrading their capacity around here. And why should they? Comcast isn't a strong competitor and they're getting almost as much as if they were providing decent speeds.
Hell, most of the time, I'm not even getting the 5mpbs that they advertise, not anywhere near it. I frequently get about half the advertised speed.
Tubes is, however when you use it as an analogy to argue against certain uses, that's what gets a person mocked for being an incompetent rube.
My mom was considering getting a similar service from MLB, but it too turned out to only offer a fraction of the games that were available on TV, meaning that she'd still need to have cable to watch most of the games.
But as long as morons sign up for those sorts of services it's unlikely that we'll get the actual service that they're touting. Sure it does say in the fine print about the exclusions, but when you look at what you're not getting, the service is way too expensive.
I don't think there are. At least around here we've only got 4 carriers if you exclude the carriers which are owned by one of the major carriers, and that's assuming that the AT&T T-Mobile merger doesn't complete.
That's my understanding, and it wouldn't be the first time that the people in charge of licensing got it wrong. I remember Coolio being somewhat pissed about Amish Paradise, but his people signed off on it. Rick James was annoyed about his guys licensing to MC Hammer until he saw the check.
It's one of the things which happens when you allow somebody else to make decisions for you.
It's not just taxes, it's any other form of debt. So, the landlord has to take USD for the rent, and the CC company. It's unlikely that we'll get to the point where you can't use them to buy groceries. Your utilities by law have to take USD as payment for service.
I'm not aware of anybody that requires bitcoins where there isn't a viable alternative.
lol and I was expecting goatse man.
You could patent the wheel, and the axle and you'd be there. Obviously, there's enough prior art that you couldn't do it, but if you were to be awarded that patent you would indeed get money for all those modes of transportation.
MS provides only security patches at this point and will do so until 2014 IIRC, which means well over a decade of security patches.
But, Firefox doesn't really need to do that as it's open source and upgrading to a newer version is free.
You wouldn't use every smell available in every film. The way I imagine it being used is more like music. Most of the time it's in the background barely noticed as things progress, but from time to time taking center stage.
It's been known for some time that scents have a powerful connection to the human mind, and I can totally see that being used to create a more immersive experience, especially if 3D technology keeps advancing.
Plus, if we ever develop the technology for a genuine holodeck we're really going to want smells as well.
Unfortunately, Linux still doesn't run on FLAC. I've written many letters to Linus and the people over at FLAC, but nobody seems interested in fixing the problem.
Hosting the server is hardly illegal. It's the logical extension of the rights of freedom of assembly and freedom of association. Doesn't matter how badly the FBI wants lulzsec, the constitution does apply.
You can't form cells when you have that few people. I'm not sure how many people are in lulzsec, but all the indications I've seen is that it's less than ten and that includes the noobs who aren't even capable of going into the IRC without compromising themselves.
Russia will extradite them to the US for trial, wait...
Probably just mad because they could never get a guy like Duke to be interested in them, no matter how many times they shake it.
As opposed to the rampant objectification of men in the popular media? I do have to wonder why it's suddenly such a big deal when it adversely affects women. Mind you that in the US women make up slightly more than half the voting population and have all sorts of rights and protections which don't apply to men.
So, instead they steal property which doesn't belong to them and for which they don't have a warrant? Yeah, that's so much better, I suppose if they aren't going to file through those other machines looking for incriminating evidence either.
As for the operator of the facility, what's wrong with them, why is it that they don't know whose equipment is now missing? They should know whose equipment is where if for no other reasons than inventory and security.
Not that it makes it OK, but where's the facilities responsibility in all this? It seems to me that somebody should have been keeping backups, granted I'm not sure that the service was responsible, but it's just amateurish to have to go and say that you can't get your own server back up because you haven't got backups.
If I were hosting my site with them, I'd be looking for a new place to house my site pronto.
Intel, you mean the same Intel that got caught paying integrators not to use AMD chips?
It's a pretty gross mis-characterization to suggest that criticism of the size of Intel is based upon size rather than how they got to be so big.
So then the answer is to stop innovating unless everybody else is doing the same thing?
I recently bought a laptop with a Llano chip in it, and I love it, the battery life is great, and the performance in terms of things that people normally do is great as well. This isn't about sour grapes, this is about a benchmark that's lost its way and isn't of particular use. If it's focusing so heavily in the way that it is, I'm not sure how I'd use the scores to figure out what processor to get.
You can get away with that sort of behavior when you're a bit player in the market, but when you've got most of the supply locked up, I don't think there's anyway in which it isn't an antitrust violation to do so. Developers are mostly going to use the one that produces the fastest code on Intel processors because it's the larger part of the market. The odds are good as well that the machines they're using use Intel processors as well.
I've been using a Llano chip recently, and the performance has been a lot better than I was expecting. Because the APU utilizes a Radeon HD 6310 it's not suitable for recent games, but I've found that games up until the last couple years seem to do just fine on it.
I'll wait to see what the performance is like on Windows 8, but Llano has little trouble with Windows 7, the system remains responsive pretty much whatever I'm doing and I rarely feel like I'm waiting around for things that should be done. There's a bit more lag than my desktop, but that sports an AMD dual core that's quite a bit faster and more power hungy.
It would be like accepting Monopoly play money, you can't readily use it to pay for attorneys or server bandwidth, sure there might be somebody that's willing to play a few cents per million for the money, but only to the extent that Parker Brothers doesn't flood the market with new bills and there's no guarantee that anybody will in the future be dealing in it.
Unlike bitcoins, aluminum cans actually have some value to them, even if you don't agree to what it is precisely, there are still uses for aluminum cans other than as a trade in. Bitcoins OTOH barely even exist, when people wake up to the scam, they're not even going to have that much.
Hence why it's so foolish. You'd be marginally better off taking currency from Zimbabwe prior to the government discontinuing it.
If it's only a dollar, I've got a feeling that it probably just ended up in the evidence locker.