This is in part because we can sense that future, even worse, shocks are coming.
Now that they have all the money AND have devalued the currency by a factor of 100 AND have all the power and control over every aspect of our lives, there is only one way for things to get better for THEM.
And that is to find ways to get rid of most of us.
People randomly pulling us over and stealing from us is designed to provoke a backlash. There will be more of it, and worse. It is time to stop using the "Welcome to the..." phrases. It is all about goodbyes now.
How about this...Faraday cage the car, then provide a cell phone antenna. To use it, you have to jack-in. And each jack has a separate IP address, so that all subsequent communication on that address can be tied to an individual. Maybe you have to dock your phone in your door, so that you can't steal someone else's jack. Ok, this is getting complicated. How about you take a hammer, and smash everyone's phone before they climb in your car?
You are confusing shelf space with successful products. It is like Microsoft with their Windows product. It is their Coke. You don't carry their Coke, you don't succeed in the computer market.
You don't do everything Coca-Cola wants, you don't get to carry Coke.
You are also missing the time element to this comparison. Coca-Cola is a trifle older than Mojang. Did Coca-Cola have 500 products when it was 5 years old?
Lee Smolin is one of the tiny minority of physicists who are genuinely thinking about the major problems of the field. I would also recommend Three Roads To Quantum Gravity.
Another I quite respect is Frank Close. I found Nothing: A Very Short Introduction to be quite thought provoking. And that is the point, by the way. Good physics, and in general good science writing, should be above all thought provoking.
Facebook now taps into smartphone microphones "just to get a 'fingerprint' that we don't save". This will drive up data usage as well, and is also being done clandestinely.
Because it doesn't work the same. images.google.com, for example, is noticeably worse in "retro" mode. (1) less images (and those in the old spaced-out-grid display), (2) less images vertically, (3) and when you click on an image, you go to the web site (i.e. you are not given the choice to just load the image).
I use Opera 12 also. I like it for its incompatibility -- it basically warns me when sites are up to something, Agreed about the crazy email folders -- this also impacts RSS feeds, so I have thousands of folders with one small file in each. Maddening. I use Yahoo email but don't pay them the $19. After a rocky bit these past few years, Yahoo email seems to have settled down and...touch wood...I actually like it.
There are all kinds of phones that work when the power is out. We have ATT & Uniden models here at present. The Telcos feed power with their signal -- if your phone doesn't need a power cord, it will work. I think I just saved your house foundation about 10 pounds. YW.
Netflix on "auto" quality settings, watching "Weeds" for a minute, translates to 60 GB/month (per 1 hr/day). We quickly dialed that back to the middle setting.
YouTube is about one-tenth of that, for regular quality video. HD was triple the regular amount (but it will depend on what you watch). So, 6 GB/month (per hour watched/day) for standard quality. 18 GB/month (per hour watched/day) for High Def. YMMV.
In Sandvineâ(TM)s 2014 Global Internet Phenomena Report, the group found that people exhibiting cord-cutter behavior -- those people who had a significantly high amount of streaming media consumption -- the average consumption amount was 213GB per month.
That is our household in a nutshell -- cord cutters. The teens watch zero TV. Same for my spouse. I use TV mainly for sports, and new Top Gear episodes. No ISO downloads, no torrent use at all.
Honestly, I'm a bit surprised by our usage. I'll probably install some program to track it for a while and figure out who and what are the biggest users.
You could edit your civilized +5 post, turning it into a troll fest. Yet still having the same +5 rating. To deal with that,/. would have to throw out the ratings for any edited post. Then those mod points would be wasted. More mod points would be needed. Users edit their posts once a minute. SkyNet would be the result.
Just a thought but if you don't need to access the Internet from your Windows partition, you can just disconnect your network cable when you boot to Windows. I have a couple of machines that are like that -- workhorses that don't need the update treadmill.
I came up with a similar theory. Except I think they then rolled them up the side of the partially completed pyramid (since it was covered with a white limestone fascade).
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This is in part because we can sense that future, even worse, shocks are coming.
Now that they have all the money AND have devalued the currency by a factor of 100 AND have all the power and control over every aspect of our lives, there is only one way for things to get better for THEM.
And that is to find ways to get rid of most of us.
People randomly pulling us over and stealing from us is designed to provoke a backlash. There will be more of it, and worse. It is time to stop using the "Welcome to the..." phrases. It is all about goodbyes now.
How about this...Faraday cage the car, then provide a cell phone antenna. To use it, you have to jack-in. And each jack has a separate IP address, so that all subsequent communication on that address can be tied to an individual. Maybe you have to dock your phone in your door, so that you can't steal someone else's jack. Ok, this is getting complicated. How about you take a hammer, and smash everyone's phone before they climb in your car?
It can't violate...a theory, and QM (i.e. another theory)? How do you figure? Theories get violated all the time.
You are confusing shelf space with successful products. It is like Microsoft with their Windows product. It is their Coke. You don't carry their Coke, you don't succeed in the computer market.
You don't do everything Coca-Cola wants, you don't get to carry Coke.
You are also missing the time element to this comparison. Coca-Cola is a trifle older than Mojang. Did Coca-Cola have 500 products when it was 5 years old?
Like Coca-Cola?
On the contrary...fastest wake-ups in town!
Lee Smolin is one of the tiny minority of physicists who are genuinely thinking about the major problems of the field. I would also recommend Three Roads To Quantum Gravity.
Another I quite respect is Frank Close. I found Nothing: A Very Short Introduction to be quite thought provoking. And that is the point, by the way. Good physics, and in general good science writing, should be above all thought provoking.
Facebook now taps into smartphone microphones "just to get a 'fingerprint' that we don't save". This will drive up data usage as well, and is also being done clandestinely.
Because it doesn't work the same. images.google.com, for example, is noticeably worse in "retro" mode. (1) less images (and those in the old spaced-out-grid display), (2) less images vertically, (3) and when you click on an image, you go to the web site (i.e. you are not given the choice to just load the image).
I use Opera 12 also. I like it for its incompatibility -- it basically warns me when sites are up to something, Agreed about the crazy email folders -- this also impacts RSS feeds, so I have thousands of folders with one small file in each. Maddening. I use Yahoo email but don't pay them the $19. After a rocky bit these past few years, Yahoo email seems to have settled down and...touch wood...I actually like it.
I've had one of these for decades. Engineers don't make mistrakes.
There are all kinds of phones that work when the power is out. We have ATT & Uniden models here at present. The Telcos feed power with their signal -- if your phone doesn't need a power cord, it will work. I think I just saved your house foundation about 10 pounds. YW.
I've used Eudora for 15 or 20 years (lost track). And CuteFTP, v2.8 for about as long. And Word for DOS since v2. And then there is LViewPro v1b.
Ok, I downloaded NetSpeedMonitor and ran some tests.
Netflix on "auto" quality settings, watching "Weeds" for a minute, translates to 60 GB/month (per 1 hr/day). We quickly dialed that back to the middle setting.
YouTube is about one-tenth of that, for regular quality video. HD was triple the regular amount (but it will depend on what you watch). So, 6 GB/month (per hour watched/day) for standard quality. 18 GB/month (per hour watched/day) for High Def. YMMV.
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That is our household in a nutshell -- cord cutters. The teens watch zero TV. Same for my spouse. I use TV mainly for sports, and new Top Gear episodes. No ISO downloads, no torrent use at all.
Honestly, I'm a bit surprised by our usage. I'll probably install some program to track it for a while and figure out who and what are the biggest users.
Netflix (one person) and two teens tubing, a lot.
Riiiiight
From that page, "Google says that the video site reaches almost one out of every two people on the Internet."
"one of every two" -- so, every other household uses YouTube. When it hits 51%, that would mean the average household uses YouTube.
Comcast's "20 or 25" as an "average" figure is...unlikely.
And there is the matter of neutrino oscillation, which could in itself nullify these results.
You missed one. The number one bandwidth application on the Internet. YouTube.
FWIW, our household of four uses an average of 350 GB a month. Despite Comcast's claim that the average account uses 20 to 25 GB a month.
You could edit your civilized +5 post, turning it into a troll fest. Yet still having the same +5 rating. To deal with that, /. would have to throw out the ratings for any edited post. Then those mod points would be wasted. More mod points would be needed. Users edit their posts once a minute. SkyNet would be the result.
A speed limit, with the 50GB for $10 penalties being repeated speeding tickets.
Just a thought but if you don't need to access the Internet from your Windows partition, you can just disconnect your network cable when you boot to Windows. I have a couple of machines that are like that -- workhorses that don't need the update treadmill.
I came up with a similar theory. Except I think they then rolled them up the side of the partially completed pyramid (since it was covered with a white limestone fascade).
If they'll do it to the cast of ST:TNG, they'll do it to anyone.