No, that's what Speed and SciFi are counting on. If I could download F1 races and Battlestar easily to my TV (not my PC) and pay a per-episode rate, I'd drop cable TV and only save about $40.
Come to think of it, if depending on what they would end up charging for Battlestar and all of the F1 things (practice, quails, and the race), $40 might be getting off light.
I was being a smartass. Yes, I understand the evidence that supports the idea. The OP gave a x + y = z style statement that can be proven to be true. CMB lends evidence to a certain idea, but it isn't 100% disprovable, unlike 2 + 2 = 4.
I am well aware that the sunlight has been taken from the morning and added to the time after work. I am unable to stargaze with my daughter since she can't stay up late enough for that. I have to ride my bike in the dark on the way to work for more hours. No, I'm not a morning person, but I enjoy both day and night. If you want more daylight after work, work 3rd shift.
I *hate* DST. I want it to go away. However, I support Indiana joining DST as long as everyone else in the country is, but Indiana should be in Central. Not one foot of Indiana soil is in the Eastern time zone.
The line for Central time is EAST of Lexington. More than 2/3 of Kentucky and Michigan are in the Central time zone. It was wrong of the USDOT to place Indiana in Eastern just because Lansing and Louisville are observing the wrong zone.
So did Indiana, in the same decade. However, now we have the burden of DOUBLE DST since we observe the Eastern time zone (full time DST) while the state in ENTIRELY within the boundries of Central time. Add DST on top of already being 1 time zone off for year-round DST, and you end up with the mess we have now. Indianapolis has the latest sunsets of any major city within the US.
I had 28.8k dialup in 1998. I can download at 6mb steady from home now. I can't see it being 10 years before I reach the numbers you are saying will take "decades"
Besides, who says it needs to be 2 hours? I normally buy my movies from Amazon, and that days a couple days. 12 hours would be a great improvement, and can be done on most broadband.
Also, keep in mind we don't need a full Blu-ray with French, German, hidden scenes, and alternate endings. Those can be a seperate download. Actual movie download size will be far less than 25gb.
Lastly, people want easy, not best. Microwave ovens are about the worst way (taste wise) to cook something, but they're easy. Dish Network, DirecTV, and cable companies are squeezing HD down to 6 mbps and MOST viewer's don't care. I don't think MOST will demand "full HD".
Actually, I see Blu-ray as being the next 8-track and mini-disc. It is a stopgap between DVD and downloadable video, just as 8-track was between LP disc and cassettes and MD was between CDs and MP3.
What gets me angry, cursing and fuming, is dieing pointlessly to helicopters, martyrdom and other elements which detract from skillful play.
How does that detract from skillful play? Helicopters are only granted after a 7 kill streak (go get that camper before he gets there!), and after they are called, a SKILLFUL RPG and a few shots from a rifle will take it out.
Martyrdom takes away from other benefits, so there is give and take there. Either go to the Harcore games where some idiot with that on will kill his own teammates, OR learn to "hot potato" that nade toward the bad guys.
I like the idea of training people to exchange keys as they would phone numbers, except keys *should* expire. I don't change my phone number every year, but I should change my private key.
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It isn't that simple. With IPv4, you have to subnet and that takes a few addresses. You'll have to have a gateway and a firewall/NAT device, there is two addresses. Network address and broadcast address take up two more, so now assuming you only need 1 IP address and took the smallest block, you just "wasted" three.
Now, maybe day one I only need 4 IP addresses. I get a subnet that can handle that, plus maybe 2 more. Now, when I need to add 2 more, I have to add a whole new subnet, waste more IPs, AND my ISP is going to have to get new ones. After all, they can't just have an unused subnet laying around, or else it would be wasted as well, right?
Getting back to end-to-end networks is what needs to happen (no more NAT), and IPv6 is the way.
I am just challenging the idea that someone deserves a monopoly.
You're points are correct, it is much easier for people to switch search engines, and all must innovate or die. Remember AltaVista? However, I don't understand why Google or anyone else cares of MS buys Yahoo. As you just pointed out, Google got their business by building a better mousetrap. Why would MS buying Yahoo have anything to do with that?
Google released a statement saying that the government should look into the whole thing between MS and Yahoo...WHY? It isn't an OS, like you said. Who cares? More debt for Microsoft, or at least less cash on hand...
Google frankly deserve that monopoly (not exactly at Windows levels, though; only 75%) because they're THE BEST SEARCH ENGINE.
Says jez9999. What if 75% of computer users said that Windows is the best OS? My guess is they might, if for no other reason that lack of trying other OSes. Does that make all of the MS monoploy talk invalid now? Or, does that at least mean that MS deserves their monopoly? Sounds like you think so.
This is exactly the type of thing I'm hoping to see, but a very bad movie does give one area to think about...
The movie "Toys" flat sucks in many ways, but there is a very interesting philosophical nugget in there. -----SPOILER ALERT------ In the movie, the antagonist creates a way that airplanes and other war machines can be linked to children playing a game at the arcade. The targets the kids see on the screen are actual living targets. The kids score more points, but they're unaware that they're taking lives.
Now imagine a Halo or Call of Duty style game that has a competition to get to play in a cash prize contest. Funded by the military, the best FPS gamers compete not against each other, but against live armies. Spooky, yet it would be the best way to do it if you really disclosed what you were doing.
The detailed GBT study dramatically changed the astronomers' understanding of the cloud
Can someone tell me what the Gay, Bisexual and Transgender study has to do with astrophysics? Or were the astronomers just assuming the cloud was "hetro", and now they understand it better?
While I like your funny subtitle to 2010, they put sound in space as well. 2001 stands alone.
Examples: Wire sounds when moving between ships, tornado sounds from the monolith, sound of the engines thrusting, burning sounds during aerobreaking (although I can kinda buy that one).
You may be a geek, but I take it you have not worked a Helpdesk.
Kids that are joining the workforce now are just supposed to get computers, right? They have been around their whole life, right? No, I still get 18 year olds telling me the classic "I know just enough to be dangerous..."
Let's not make sure they can use a tool that is a requirement in almost EVERY job. Everyone from factory line staff to auto repair shops have to use computers. Let's just make sure they can draw pretty pictures...like "Will paint for food"
Assuming the poster is being forced to use Windows, then yeah, DUH!
There are many features in Vista (such as Bitlocker) that are great security improvements over XP. Yes, Vista is a slow, buggy P.O.S. compared to XP, but it is MORE secure than XP.
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Come to think of it, if depending on what they would end up charging for Battlestar and all of the F1 things (practice, quails, and the race), $40 might be getting off light.
Oh, you meant my choice of ABC, CBS, NBC, and sometimes FOX? I'll take over-compressed SciFi HD over analog SciFi non-HD any day of the week.
However, things like an email from a spouse that put .com instead of .mil on the following I CAN SEE:
To:spouse@airfarce.com
Honey, I know that you said Airforce One will be there all afternoon, but do you think I can still meet you for lunch?
I was being a smartass. Yes, I understand the evidence that supports the idea. The OP gave a x + y = z style statement that can be proven to be true. CMB lends evidence to a certain idea, but it isn't 100% disprovable, unlike 2 + 2 = 4.
I *hate* DST. I want it to go away. However, I support Indiana joining DST as long as everyone else in the country is, but Indiana should be in Central. Not one foot of Indiana soil is in the Eastern time zone.
The line for Central time is EAST of Lexington. More than 2/3 of Kentucky and Michigan are in the Central time zone. It was wrong of the USDOT to place Indiana in Eastern just because Lansing and Louisville are observing the wrong zone.
I think Homer Simpson had the formula once, but Flanders burned it.
I hope you guys don't get screwed with it too.
Yes, actualy. And I can download that amount faster than Fed-Ex can ship me a single movie at a rate I want to pay for.
Besides, who says it needs to be 2 hours? I normally buy my movies from Amazon, and that days a couple days. 12 hours would be a great improvement, and can be done on most broadband.
Also, keep in mind we don't need a full Blu-ray with French, German, hidden scenes, and alternate endings. Those can be a seperate download. Actual movie download size will be far less than 25gb.
Lastly, people want easy, not best. Microwave ovens are about the worst way (taste wise) to cook something, but they're easy. Dish Network, DirecTV, and cable companies are squeezing HD down to 6 mbps and MOST viewer's don't care. I don't think MOST will demand "full HD".
Actually, I see Blu-ray as being the next 8-track and mini-disc. It is a stopgap between DVD and downloadable video, just as 8-track was between LP disc and cassettes and MD was between CDs and MP3.
How does that detract from skillful play? Helicopters are only granted after a 7 kill streak (go get that camper before he gets there!), and after they are called, a SKILLFUL RPG and a few shots from a rifle will take it out.
Martyrdom takes away from other benefits, so there is give and take there. Either go to the Harcore games where some idiot with that on will kill his own teammates, OR learn to "hot potato" that nade toward the bad guys.
It is still skill.
I like the idea of training people to exchange keys as they would phone numbers, except keys *should* expire. I don't change my phone number every year, but I should change my private key.
What the hell screwed up keyboard are you using? My | key is about 8 inches to the RIGHT of the ! key.
Now, maybe day one I only need 4 IP addresses. I get a subnet that can handle that, plus maybe 2 more. Now, when I need to add 2 more, I have to add a whole new subnet, waste more IPs, AND my ISP is going to have to get new ones. After all, they can't just have an unused subnet laying around, or else it would be wasted as well, right?
Getting back to end-to-end networks is what needs to happen (no more NAT), and IPv6 is the way.
You're points are correct, it is much easier for people to switch search engines, and all must innovate or die. Remember AltaVista? However, I don't understand why Google or anyone else cares of MS buys Yahoo. As you just pointed out, Google got their business by building a better mousetrap. Why would MS buying Yahoo have anything to do with that?
Google released a statement saying that the government should look into the whole thing between MS and Yahoo...WHY? It isn't an OS, like you said. Who cares? More debt for Microsoft, or at least less cash on hand...
Says jez9999. What if 75% of computer users said that Windows is the best OS? My guess is they might, if for no other reason that lack of trying other OSes. Does that make all of the MS monoploy talk invalid now? Or, does that at least mean that MS deserves their monopoly? Sounds like you think so.
Should I read the first one, or the 1991 update?
The movie "Toys" flat sucks in many ways, but there is a very interesting philosophical nugget in there. -----SPOILER ALERT------ In the movie, the antagonist creates a way that airplanes and other war machines can be linked to children playing a game at the arcade. The targets the kids see on the screen are actual living targets. The kids score more points, but they're unaware that they're taking lives.
Now imagine a Halo or Call of Duty style game that has a competition to get to play in a cash prize contest. Funded by the military, the best FPS gamers compete not against each other, but against live armies. Spooky, yet it would be the best way to do it if you really disclosed what you were doing.
Can someone tell me what the Gay, Bisexual and Transgender study has to do with astrophysics? Or were the astronomers just assuming the cloud was "hetro", and now they understand it better?
SWEET! That means we can download and listen to whatever we want at Milliways! I bet they have a nice WiFi setup...
Examples: Wire sounds when moving between ships, tornado sounds from the monolith, sound of the engines thrusting, burning sounds during aerobreaking (although I can kinda buy that one).
Kids that are joining the workforce now are just supposed to get computers, right? They have been around their whole life, right? No, I still get 18 year olds telling me the classic "I know just enough to be dangerous..."
Let's not make sure they can use a tool that is a requirement in almost EVERY job. Everyone from factory line staff to auto repair shops have to use computers. Let's just make sure they can draw pretty pictures...like "Will paint for food"
There are many features in Vista (such as Bitlocker) that are great security improvements over XP. Yes, Vista is a slow, buggy P.O.S. compared to XP, but it is MORE secure than XP.