I am in this area, im pretty sure i might use 1% by myself.. But I dont have the basic cable package, i have one that costs about 3x what the basic does. I would hope they would take that in consideration;)
I took around 10 hard drives and shot a 22-250 hollow point into them, it made it through about 6 and into the 7th. Was interesting to see how it expanded bigger and bigger into the each next drive. But this is one of the fastest rifles easily available to people and this was custom reloaded bullets. I would assume a full metal jacket would make it all the way through. Any reasonable rifle for say deer hunting, will go though several drives. Still was quite impressive going through that much metal layers like that.
Main thing about the slim to me is they doubled the ram from 32MB to 64MB. I recently played with a few hacked ones, was a bit impressed with them, so i waited for the slim to come out and got that one instead of buying a fat one. The right tools and in about 20 seconds its hacked, 4GB memory card and some bandwidth.. etc etc.. thx sony.. but the ps3 still needs some games.. bad.
I grew up and lived most my life in rural areas in Texas.. Back about 8 to 10 years ago I used ISDN in a town with about 200 people.. The phone lines sound like the quality of yours, i would and still dial up there at around 21.6k or something. ISDN would give me 128k. T1 is generally an option for anyone with the money, that is what I have now. runs me about $500 a month however and I share it with one other person via wireless..
Depending on the terrain and distance to the closest place with DSL/cable/etc you might could use one of the versions of point to point wireless, I have considered doing that myself. I would say that would be one of your better options IF you can managed to work that out.. Satellite internet in my experience works for downloading larger files from a single source (like FTP or from a HTTP source), but its latency is terrible, I rather surf on a 56k modem or ISDN. The ping times Ive seen on sat were between 1200ms to 2500ms.. which i find it a bit amazing they dont have something worth a damn in that area without that latency yet (but i do not know the technical issues on that, i just find it odd..)
So i would at least get ISDN, should be available to you, would be around 6x the speed you have now if I understand right using both lines bonded. If you got the cash to shell out they should be able to get a T1 to you for $500 to $700.. I went through a re-seller from AT&T and she managed to get me a better price than AT&T was going to give me themself.. but that is quite expensive. And there is always the wireless to the next town that has something cheap and usable.
wonder if thats why my last 1TB hard drive cost $300.02...
but seriously i think that tax is applying to the music CD-R, not data CD-R, but i could be wrong. doubt it is getting applied to memory cards, hard drives, etc. unless it comes with/in a music player.
my P4 Prescott 3.2ghz still running quite well in my living room.. I keeps the room nice and warm too, in the winter i have to overclock it to 3.9ghz to keep from turning on the heater tho..
this is why many of the 'vista only games' have been cracked by 'warez' groups where they run on XP, if not better than they would on vista. The games of course are capable of running on XP, MS just wanted to use whatever they could to push people to vista. Vista is just a failure all together as many have said in one way or another. The only thing I hope gets better over the next few years is 64bit support and multi-core/processor support, wont find many games taking advantage of 64bit arch, 2+ cores and able to correctly use (usually OS related) more than 2GB of ram, getting quite pathetic in some ways.
These are people who rip out or recompress the music and movie files in games so they can fit them into Usenet posts, vise MP3's down to 92 kbps so they can share them en masse on Limewire, compress the hell out of dual layer DVD movies with DivX so they'll fit on a single CD-R, and so forth.
DVDs use MPEG-2 video compression which is highly inefficient and its still lossy. Most all rips are XviD not divx, but either way it is a lot better method of compression, its not too far off from the compression meathod used for Bluray and HDDVD. But yes usually down to 1 CD or 2 CDs, 1 CD being much more common, a real DVD doesnt look that much better on a 50" plasma from my experience, but it is noticeable, a rip from a HD source that is around 2x the size of a normal release looks better than DVD usually. MP3s are usually 192-320 kbps sometimes variable, not 92.. but then again i haven't ever used limewire.. lol.
I grew up and live close to Beaumont, TX. Closest toll road is in Houston (80+ miles away) that I know of, we have a free ferry even to Galveston. It was a whole different world when I lived in Maryland and was going to NJ, NY, and other states in that area. I don't remember any toll roads in Austin either. It is quite strange going from this environment to a place like NJ where you can't pump your own gas and on the way there you got planes flying over the road to give out tickets in PA.
...by CIA and NSA. I'm just a harmless jackass. No need to pay any attention. Nor to wiretap me.
same goes for me. I really dont care much about wiretapping and all the stuff that much since it doesnt effect me and i just blend into the masses. I hope they have a way to filter out all the encrypted bittorrent and other traffic i do tho. It couldnt have been good for them with all torrent and many other p2p programs almost all using encryption.
They also tried the whole no food thing for a few weeks. That didnt seem to work either. I rather my brain be shocked than starve for 2 weeks.. Even mass murderers in the US get a lethal combo of drugs to make it 'instant'.
in face to face you can just hand it back right there and then, you dont have to call some 800 number on the side of the machine (depending what type of atm, location etc). I might be a bit odd, but it would take at least a gallon of gas for me to get to a post office, i do not have any stamps, envelopes, etc. (I also think fax machines should be outlawed lol). If i can just walk in the bank and give it back i would, otherwise... i would call them and tell them they can come pick up the money at my house, but considering the laws on something of that nature, i wouldnt.
if i notice it i give it back, but one time i was given change for like a 20 when i gave a 10 (could have been change for 50 with a 20). i tried to give it back, the lady behind the counter was way more interested in me still being in the way, and getting to the next customer.. i actually ended up annoyed at the lady more than anything, so i kept it and got out of her way.
but if wataburger ever screws up im keeping it, they owe me for like 20 pies.. i order them, they never gave me them over and over.. lol and i dont notice till i drive off.
thx Grishnakh & Hucko for the response. Sounds to me its 'sorta' why oil is high right now. Disruption in supply, while having more demand. Just was not used to Copper being so expensive. My father does A/C work and has to use copper pipe from the inside unit to the out, besides the units containing a lot of copper. I believe he told me the copper is about 3x as much as it was a few years ago. i had to buy some #6 & #12 wire recently, amazingly high. and even cat5.. Its really effecting things. I guess if it gets high enough they will start melting all the pre-1982/83 pennies down if they aren't already like they they did with the silver ones back in the whatever 70s or 80s forget what years.
mmorpgs are insane time wasters. I spent way more time than i would like to admit in Ultima Online. As far as linux support, they used to for UO (not anymore) but everyone uses 3rd party things for the game and those really needed windows, at least VM or something. I do not know the linux status for other mmorpgs. UO has a pretty big learning curve, it seemed real big at least since it was the first mmorpg most people could play, (came out in sept. of 1997). Another thing is I sold about 10k USD worth of stuff in that game, while buying around 3k. seems silly buying stuff to some people, but i sold 10k, lol.
Origin Systems, Inc. (OSI) mainly known for the Ultima series, personally for me it was Ultima Online killed by "In September 1992, Electronic Arts acquired the company." and Richard Garriott left in 2000. Was more or less the first mmorpg by modern standards, quite amazing in its day, but declined rapidly for several reasons, I mainly blame the 'expansions' released after Garriott left, some were worse than others. anyway.. my lame 2 cents.
Can anyone enlighten me to why copper has gotten so expensive in the last few years. I know its not just copper, but it is the one that effects me and a lot of people the most. The only things I can think of is a war doesnt help, but still dont see that making that huge of an impact and I would guess China might have a higher demand than 10 years ago.. anyone got a real response?
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I am in this area, im pretty sure i might use 1% by myself.. But I dont have the basic cable package, i have one that costs about 3x what the basic does. I would hope they would take that in consideration ;)
I took around 10 hard drives and shot a 22-250 hollow point into them, it made it through about 6 and into the 7th. Was interesting to see how it expanded bigger and bigger into the each next drive. But this is one of the fastest rifles easily available to people and this was custom reloaded bullets. I would assume a full metal jacket would make it all the way through. Any reasonable rifle for say deer hunting, will go though several drives. Still was quite impressive going through that much metal layers like that.
Main thing about the slim to me is they doubled the ram from 32MB to 64MB. I recently played with a few hacked ones, was a bit impressed with them, so i waited for the slim to come out and got that one instead of buying a fat one. The right tools and in about 20 seconds its hacked, 4GB memory card and some bandwidth.. etc etc.. thx sony.. but the ps3 still needs some games.. bad.
Yes, unfortunately there is many 3rd party apps, virtually a must to play, that are all windows only ;( Also had to update in windows..
I grew up and lived most my life in rural areas in Texas.. Back about 8 to 10 years ago I used ISDN in a town with about 200 people.. The phone lines sound like the quality of yours, i would and still dial up there at around 21.6k or something. ISDN would give me 128k. T1 is generally an option for anyone with the money, that is what I have now. runs me about $500 a month however and I share it with one other person via wireless..
Depending on the terrain and distance to the closest place with DSL/cable/etc you might could use one of the versions of point to point wireless, I have considered doing that myself. I would say that would be one of your better options IF you can managed to work that out.. Satellite internet in my experience works for downloading larger files from a single source (like FTP or from a HTTP source), but its latency is terrible, I rather surf on a 56k modem or ISDN. The ping times Ive seen on sat were between 1200ms to 2500ms.. which i find it a bit amazing they dont have something worth a damn in that area without that latency yet (but i do not know the technical issues on that, i just find it odd..)
So i would at least get ISDN, should be available to you, would be around 6x the speed you have now if I understand right using both lines bonded. If you got the cash to shell out they should be able to get a T1 to you for $500 to $700.. I went through a re-seller from AT&T and she managed to get me a better price than AT&T was going to give me themself.. but that is quite expensive. And there is always the wireless to the next town that has something cheap and usable.
wonder if thats why my last 1TB hard drive cost $300.02... but seriously i think that tax is applying to the music CD-R, not data CD-R, but i could be wrong. doubt it is getting applied to memory cards, hard drives, etc. unless it comes with/in a music player.
What is this 'Halo'?
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my P4 Prescott 3.2ghz still running quite well in my living room.. I keeps the room nice and warm too, in the winter i have to overclock it to 3.9ghz to keep from turning on the heater tho..
this is why many of the 'vista only games' have been cracked by 'warez' groups where they run on XP, if not better than they would on vista. The games of course are capable of running on XP, MS just wanted to use whatever they could to push people to vista. Vista is just a failure all together as many have said in one way or another. The only thing I hope gets better over the next few years is 64bit support and multi-core/processor support, wont find many games taking advantage of 64bit arch, 2+ cores and able to correctly use (usually OS related) more than 2GB of ram, getting quite pathetic in some ways.
yes i will '24mbps (ADSL2+) @ $30/mbps = $720/month.' if that includes the local loop.
These are people who rip out or recompress the music and movie files in games so they can fit them into Usenet posts, vise MP3's down to 92 kbps so they can share them en masse on Limewire, compress the hell out of dual layer DVD movies with DivX so they'll fit on a single CD-R, and so forth.
DVDs use MPEG-2 video compression which is highly inefficient and its still lossy. Most all rips are XviD not divx, but either way it is a lot better method of compression, its not too far off from the compression meathod used for Bluray and HDDVD. But yes usually down to 1 CD or 2 CDs, 1 CD being much more common, a real DVD doesnt look that much better on a 50" plasma from my experience, but it is noticeable, a rip from a HD source that is around 2x the size of a normal release looks better than DVD usually. MP3s are usually 192-320 kbps sometimes variable, not 92.. but then again i haven't ever used limewire.. lol.
I grew up and live close to Beaumont, TX. Closest toll road is in Houston (80+ miles away) that I know of, we have a free ferry even to Galveston. It was a whole different world when I lived in Maryland and was going to NJ, NY, and other states in that area. I don't remember any toll roads in Austin either. It is quite strange going from this environment to a place like NJ where you can't pump your own gas and on the way there you got planes flying over the road to give out tickets in PA.
...by CIA and NSA. I'm just a harmless jackass. No need to pay any attention. Nor to wiretap me. same goes for me. I really dont care much about wiretapping and all the stuff that much since it doesnt effect me and i just blend into the masses. I hope they have a way to filter out all the encrypted bittorrent and other traffic i do tho. It couldnt have been good for them with all torrent and many other p2p programs almost all using encryption.
They also tried the whole no food thing for a few weeks. That didnt seem to work either. I rather my brain be shocked than starve for 2 weeks.. Even mass murderers in the US get a lethal combo of drugs to make it 'instant'.
Transformers (2007) *TS* nfo file should have just downloaded this like the rest of the world.
i hope its the guy who was sending me all those spam e-mails.. how does he know i have penis problems!?!
in face to face you can just hand it back right there and then, you dont have to call some 800 number on the side of the machine (depending what type of atm, location etc). I might be a bit odd, but it would take at least a gallon of gas for me to get to a post office, i do not have any stamps, envelopes, etc. (I also think fax machines should be outlawed lol). If i can just walk in the bank and give it back i would, otherwise... i would call them and tell them they can come pick up the money at my house, but considering the laws on something of that nature, i wouldnt.
if i notice it i give it back, but one time i was given change for like a 20 when i gave a 10 (could have been change for 50 with a 20). i tried to give it back, the lady behind the counter was way more interested in me still being in the way, and getting to the next customer.. i actually ended up annoyed at the lady more than anything, so i kept it and got out of her way.
but if wataburger ever screws up im keeping it, they owe me for like 20 pies.. i order them, they never gave me them over and over.. lol and i dont notice till i drive off.
I would call it a little bit their fault for having an ATM that gives out 5s to start with.
thx Grishnakh & Hucko for the response. Sounds to me its 'sorta' why oil is high right now. Disruption in supply, while having more demand. Just was not used to Copper being so expensive. My father does A/C work and has to use copper pipe from the inside unit to the out, besides the units containing a lot of copper. I believe he told me the copper is about 3x as much as it was a few years ago. i had to buy some #6 & #12 wire recently, amazingly high. and even cat5.. Its really effecting things. I guess if it gets high enough they will start melting all the pre-1982/83 pennies down if they aren't already like they they did with the silver ones back in the whatever 70s or 80s forget what years.
mmorpgs are insane time wasters. I spent way more time than i would like to admit in Ultima Online. As far as linux support, they used to for UO (not anymore) but everyone uses 3rd party things for the game and those really needed windows, at least VM or something. I do not know the linux status for other mmorpgs. UO has a pretty big learning curve, it seemed real big at least since it was the first mmorpg most people could play, (came out in sept. of 1997). Another thing is I sold about 10k USD worth of stuff in that game, while buying around 3k. seems silly buying stuff to some people, but i sold 10k, lol.
.."For this to work, however, Internet Explorer 7 needs to be installed.".. Solution: Uninstall Internet Explorer 7.
Origin Systems, Inc. (OSI) mainly known for the Ultima series, personally for me it was Ultima Online killed by "In September 1992, Electronic Arts acquired the company." and Richard Garriott left in 2000.
Was more or less the first mmorpg by modern standards, quite amazing in its day, but declined rapidly for several reasons, I mainly blame the 'expansions' released after Garriott left, some were worse than others. anyway.. my lame 2 cents.
Can anyone enlighten me to why copper has gotten so expensive in the last few years. I know its not just copper, but it is the one that effects me and a lot of people the most. The only things I can think of is a war doesnt help, but still dont see that making that huge of an impact and I would guess China might have a higher demand than 10 years ago.. anyone got a real response?