Out here in Seattle, we still pay $40+ a month for 5Mbps. And I'm not even convinced that we're getting the full 5mbps that we were promised. It really depends where you are, and I'm guessing that on the balance you're in the minority.
I'd mod that insightful if I hadn't already posted. That's exactly what it sounded like to me as well. And I'm sure there's already Jew ogle sites out there. That can't be that unusual of a fetish.
Well, to be fair God is about as believable as leprechauns and unicorns. If you pay close attention, God doesn't really solve any problems which don't have other answers, in this day and age God is more of an excuse not to do the research to figure out why.
Wallmart isn't competing, they've joined up with T-mobile, one of the carriers. I'm sure they've managed to get the price down without cutting too much into T-mobile's price margin.
That's in my view to low to really do anything interesting. If you've got wifi at home, I'm sure it's not such an issue, but still you hardly have to be a power user to eat through that.
The problem is that college level physics requires calculus. And the problem there is that while there is ultimately only one correct answer, it can often times look very different from the other equivalent correct answers. Even though they all resolve to the same number.
But, the real problem is that physics without story problems greatly reduces the amount of complexity and difficulty that's available. The number of people that struggle goes up significantly when they have to find the relevant variables and figure out how to use them.
I'm a bit surprised that the college doesn't offer individual proctored exams as as an accommodation. I proctored a few exams for individuals with learning disorders myself, I'd be surprised if being an ESL student wouldn't garner some right to help.
That's actually a deal that I'd kill to get. Around here, that won't even get you 10mbps, last I checked 6mbps was round about a hundred. Which is more than the other ISPs, but that's with Speakeasy, the only ISP around here to even claim they can provide that kind of bandwidth.
It's a viable option, but getting a company that knows what they're doing is a virtual impossibility in some parts of the country. Around here, Clear has barely any more latency than the DSL provider does. Mainly because they have to add latency to counter out their crappy unmaintained lines.
Except in certain parts of the country it's not available at any price. That's the thing, it's hard to vote for it with your wallet if nobody is providing it. For as many tech companies as there are around here, there are no good ISPs. Speakeasy is probably the best available and you're talking a lot of money. I'm somewhat suspicious that they could be that much better than Qwest or the other options.
I'm hoping that Google will do something similar here, Qwest is the phone company and Comcast covers the cable modems. Both suck, latency for Qwest is ridiculous, and when we had comcast the connection was out as much as it was on. Despite them advertising it as always on.
Speakeasy supposedly offers up to 10mbps, but it's expensive, and Qwest probably isn't giving us the 5mbps we're paying for.
Erm, what? You do realize that the same group of developers that did Dangerous Dave did Commander Keen, right? And that further more apart from being platformers, they really didn't have that much in common.
I'm guessing that most of them either weren't into gaming or aren't old enough to remember. Personally, I remember that, I also remember the championship edition, which came with the track game and pad. I also remember that crazy robot thing that could play games, the power glove and that awesome light gun. Too bad it doesn't work on non-CRT televisions.
That's not really the same thing. Bush scared the crap out of a substantial number of Americans. I'm not sure that McCain or anybody else would've been able to do anything else. Regardless of what he does he's screwed. If he fixes all of it then he loses the independent vote that's necessary to keep his party in power and if he doesn't he gets idiot conservatives claiming that he's as bad as his predecessor.
But at the end of the day, Bush fucked things up to the point where there isn't really any good way of fixing a lot of this. If he doesn't keep it secret, it's just going to embolden the terrorists, and if he does he's going to face well justified criticism for being secretive.
I can't blame him for playing it safe a terrorist attack now would keep the Presidency out of democratic hands for a long time.
Using bandwidth to service people at home is asinine. There is admittedly a reasonable argument for people in the middle of nowhere, but in cities there's absolutely no justification for it when you can lay wire.
I assume that you're trolling, because otherwise you're just an obtuse jack ass. There are ways of hooking up the poor, other than the antenna, and assuming that it's impossible only maintains the status quo.
Bullshit, there is no such natural right. The airwaves belong to the people by way of the federal government. You have a right to use it so far as it's available to use. Just because you have a pet use doesn't mean you get to use it for that purpose.
By your logic you can drive on toll roads without paying the toll, because you own a portion of it. I'd be curious if you've the stones to tell that to the police when they're writing you a ticket for it.
That's what open-mesh was created specifically to do. The devices themselves are cheap and easy to set up. And they provide you with efficient tools to connect up to billing services and authentication if you wish to.
2 to 25 is plenty for most of the country. Around here, we'd have to more or less triple the stations to use that up. Probably have to go to HD to do it.
As much sympathy as I have, why should most of the country suffer for what is an east coast centric problem? I get that there are a lot of people over there, but it got old a long time ago having to suffer for problems which are way over there.
It shows a distinct arrogance to screw us once again over an issue that doesn't affect us.
Er, what? First off, as much as I dislike grammar Nazis, at some point it's just incomprehensible. Second off, doesn't the FCC normally bar interference from devices that are not licensed? And thirdly, it's not likely to be a big enough problem for people to lose sleep over.
It depends, back when I was working with Groco, it was warned not to use it for fertilizing food, but apparently these days that warning no longer appliers. The composting process takes the temperature of the compost up high enough to pretty well sterilize it.
Spirulina is pretty much the king of the hill in that respect. The problem with it though is that it's cleansing, consuming enough to make for even a small snack would definitely be enough to give you diarrhea amongst other things. But it's packed with nutrition.
To some extent same goes for other algae, they've got lots of nutritional value, but you have to be mindful that they are used medicinally for a reason.
Which is precisely my point. The fact that up 'till now it's been more or less impossible to be completely standards compliant and have it render on the major browsers is the problem. If the standards are properly programmed, then there's no valid excuse for counting on the browser to get it right. There's just way too much that can go wrong.
But, IIRC acid goes beyond just testing the standards. It's really, really bad to coddle devs that refuse to debug their code. If you want it to render correctly, the debug it.
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Out here in Seattle, we still pay $40+ a month for 5Mbps. And I'm not even convinced that we're getting the full 5mbps that we were promised. It really depends where you are, and I'm guessing that on the balance you're in the minority.
Meh, stupid Christians, I've been using a magic 8-ball for years.
I'd mod that insightful if I hadn't already posted. That's exactly what it sounded like to me as well. And I'm sure there's already Jew ogle sites out there. That can't be that unusual of a fetish.
Well, to be fair God is about as believable as leprechauns and unicorns. If you pay close attention, God doesn't really solve any problems which don't have other answers, in this day and age God is more of an excuse not to do the research to figure out why.
Wallmart isn't competing, they've joined up with T-mobile, one of the carriers. I'm sure they've managed to get the price down without cutting too much into T-mobile's price margin.
That's in my view to low to really do anything interesting. If you've got wifi at home, I'm sure it's not such an issue, but still you hardly have to be a power user to eat through that.
Just make constructing a Faraday cage a part of the course curriculum. Problem solved.
Wasn't iTouch myself a song by Divinyls?
The problem is that college level physics requires calculus. And the problem there is that while there is ultimately only one correct answer, it can often times look very different from the other equivalent correct answers. Even though they all resolve to the same number.
But, the real problem is that physics without story problems greatly reduces the amount of complexity and difficulty that's available. The number of people that struggle goes up significantly when they have to find the relevant variables and figure out how to use them.
I'm a bit surprised that the college doesn't offer individual proctored exams as as an accommodation. I proctored a few exams for individuals with learning disorders myself, I'd be surprised if being an ESL student wouldn't garner some right to help.
That's actually a deal that I'd kill to get. Around here, that won't even get you 10mbps, last I checked 6mbps was round about a hundred. Which is more than the other ISPs, but that's with Speakeasy, the only ISP around here to even claim they can provide that kind of bandwidth.
I'm willing to bet that the ToS prohibit such connection sharing.
It's a viable option, but getting a company that knows what they're doing is a virtual impossibility in some parts of the country. Around here, Clear has barely any more latency than the DSL provider does. Mainly because they have to add latency to counter out their crappy unmaintained lines.
Except in certain parts of the country it's not available at any price. That's the thing, it's hard to vote for it with your wallet if nobody is providing it. For as many tech companies as there are around here, there are no good ISPs. Speakeasy is probably the best available and you're talking a lot of money. I'm somewhat suspicious that they could be that much better than Qwest or the other options.
I'm hoping that Google will do something similar here, Qwest is the phone company and Comcast covers the cable modems. Both suck, latency for Qwest is ridiculous, and when we had comcast the connection was out as much as it was on. Despite them advertising it as always on.
Speakeasy supposedly offers up to 10mbps, but it's expensive, and Qwest probably isn't giving us the 5mbps we're paying for.
Erm, what? You do realize that the same group of developers that did Dangerous Dave did Commander Keen, right? And that further more apart from being platformers, they really didn't have that much in common.
I'm guessing that most of them either weren't into gaming or aren't old enough to remember. Personally, I remember that, I also remember the championship edition, which came with the track game and pad. I also remember that crazy robot thing that could play games, the power glove and that awesome light gun. Too bad it doesn't work on non-CRT televisions.
That's not really the same thing. Bush scared the crap out of a substantial number of Americans. I'm not sure that McCain or anybody else would've been able to do anything else. Regardless of what he does he's screwed. If he fixes all of it then he loses the independent vote that's necessary to keep his party in power and if he doesn't he gets idiot conservatives claiming that he's as bad as his predecessor.
But at the end of the day, Bush fucked things up to the point where there isn't really any good way of fixing a lot of this. If he doesn't keep it secret, it's just going to embolden the terrorists, and if he does he's going to face well justified criticism for being secretive.
I can't blame him for playing it safe a terrorist attack now would keep the Presidency out of democratic hands for a long time.
Using bandwidth to service people at home is asinine. There is admittedly a reasonable argument for people in the middle of nowhere, but in cities there's absolutely no justification for it when you can lay wire.
I assume that you're trolling, because otherwise you're just an obtuse jack ass. There are ways of hooking up the poor, other than the antenna, and assuming that it's impossible only maintains the status quo.
Bullshit, there is no such natural right. The airwaves belong to the people by way of the federal government. You have a right to use it so far as it's available to use. Just because you have a pet use doesn't mean you get to use it for that purpose.
By your logic you can drive on toll roads without paying the toll, because you own a portion of it. I'd be curious if you've the stones to tell that to the police when they're writing you a ticket for it.
That's what open-mesh was created specifically to do. The devices themselves are cheap and easy to set up. And they provide you with efficient tools to connect up to billing services and authentication if you wish to.
2 to 25 is plenty for most of the country. Around here, we'd have to more or less triple the stations to use that up. Probably have to go to HD to do it.
As much sympathy as I have, why should most of the country suffer for what is an east coast centric problem? I get that there are a lot of people over there, but it got old a long time ago having to suffer for problems which are way over there.
It shows a distinct arrogance to screw us once again over an issue that doesn't affect us.
Er, what? First off, as much as I dislike grammar Nazis, at some point it's just incomprehensible. Second off, doesn't the FCC normally bar interference from devices that are not licensed? And thirdly, it's not likely to be a big enough problem for people to lose sleep over.
It depends, back when I was working with Groco, it was warned not to use it for fertilizing food, but apparently these days that warning no longer appliers. The composting process takes the temperature of the compost up high enough to pretty well sterilize it.
Spirulina is pretty much the king of the hill in that respect. The problem with it though is that it's cleansing, consuming enough to make for even a small snack would definitely be enough to give you diarrhea amongst other things. But it's packed with nutrition.
To some extent same goes for other algae, they've got lots of nutritional value, but you have to be mindful that they are used medicinally for a reason.
Which is precisely my point. The fact that up 'till now it's been more or less impossible to be completely standards compliant and have it render on the major browsers is the problem. If the standards are properly programmed, then there's no valid excuse for counting on the browser to get it right. There's just way too much that can go wrong.
But, IIRC acid goes beyond just testing the standards. It's really, really bad to coddle devs that refuse to debug their code. If you want it to render correctly, the debug it.