I don't like it either, fwiw. It does take away space on the page to try to cram in the existing widgets. Everything feels very cramped now and looks horrible.
htf they would miss the incessant PSAs for it every single commercial break is beyond me. If they're not ready for it, then they don't need to be watching tv as the PSAs have been so insidious as well as the full screen banners about it.
I had a similar problem with a roommate sucking the bandwidth dry on our SDSL line (1.5 both ways) a few years back. I actually thought it was the ISP and called them numerous times trying to resolve the 2000ms+ pings I was getting to every site (at the time it wasn't so simple to see what bw was running through your router). It seemed to "magically" start around 730pm and last well into the evening. After logging into the modem as per my ISP's instructions, I was watching the upstream packets moving at a ridiculous rate so I unplugged his cable. It instantly stopped, so then I knew it was something on his machine. When I approached him about the issue, he claimed he was "only allowing 1 upload at a time", of course unthrottled. I suggested he throttle it to a reasonable amount (1/4 of our bandwidth as there were four of us sharing the connection). He told me to my face he would, but being the vindictive bastard that he was --then put a deadbolt on his door and would leave it running full throttle 10 hours a day while he was at work. So, I'd simply unplug his cable while he was gone. He finally got pissed at me and got his own dedicated DSL line two weeks later.
Long story short, maybe this guy is like my ex-roommate and the op had the discussion already and wants to create his own solution to the problem without it resulting in alternate living conditions.
Nowadays, I throttle everyone else where I currently live to reasonable amounts and block P2P apps and everyone here knows I do exactly that as long as I'm paying the bill.
Only thing is, using the car analogy, it'd be like you can only drive the BMV on the Interstate (Main-stream office applications) and not on the sideroads (typical PC gaming).
I'd happily buy a Mac as soon as I can do what I currently do completely within the confines of MacOSX and not have to use emulation/virtualization and a Windows license.
The basic reason ISP's are targeting bittorrent is simple. 90 to 95% of the traffic is copyright violation.
Sure, there are some legitimate files being served through torrents such as software updates and linux distros, but I think we all know that a majority of the generated traffic is, by definition, illegal (in the U.S.).
This is true for me. I had been using Yahoo! and Yahoo! 360 for blogging/social networking until Yahoo! decided they didn't want to keep running 360 any more and turn it into a junk-fest that they're looking to change in the next two months. I closed my account and moved my blogging to Blogger (Google). Yeah, I could run wordpress directly on my site, but it's too much of a hassle to bother with.
I suppose you can argue that Google is getting "too big for it's britches" but for some strange reason I tend to offer them a bit more trust than Microsoft.
Two of my former domains are being "tasted" repeatedly and both are now offering link farms. Neither had any reasonable traffic so I'm not entirely sure what makes them so delicious. It's very annoying truthfully. I'd originally registered them with anonymous registration and when I wanted to renew them, godaddy refused to allow me to not renew the anon without going to their anon service site and specifically requesting it's removal -- except I no longer had the customer id # after 3 years and a computer change. They wanted a fax with 3 pieces of ID (which would have cost me a cab trip for 20 bucks and the faxing charge) Decided it wasn't worth the hassle and let them expire.
Of course, I think 1.8 million consoles a month is nothing to shake a stick at.
Unfortunately, 1.7 million of them are being bought up by eBay whores trying to make a fat profit off them.
Hmm, well, at one time I had three different working ones (I went through 5 total.) After beginning to understand how they liked to blow themselves up, I bought them at yard sales for parts.
Oh, and I had enough pirated software for it that I could have personally filled the Arnold Archive myself.
The original one got me through college. I bought one from another student and all his gear for 50 bucks. Sweet deal. It included one of the white case ones and an original, two floppy drives, ram expansion cart, modem, and a boatload of software (albeit quite a bit of it I already had.) Was fun finding the new stuff.
Within a year after college, unfortunately I became permanently disabled. With the initial settlement, I bought a 486sx-25 (don't laugh.. stop it. I said STOP IT!), and within 6 months, like a proverbial hyena, I sold all my c64 stuff for 50 bucks to a friend. (Quit laughing!) Damn, I regret selling it.
Perhaps instead of "bricking" we should use a lighter, more fluffy term for this, such as "Soap Bubbled" or "Cotton Swabbed" or "Lacy-saddled Pony"... or perhaps just use "fluffed". Yeah... that sounds the best to me.
Unfortunately, there is absolutely no "competition" in my market, so I will be pretty much screwed at a whopping 6 or 8 meg under Comcrust. DSL through the "phone company" is out of the question for me as that maxes out at 6 meg here for $90/month. I am pretty happy with Insight's service 10/1 plan, but since it's being slurped up by Comcast as of 1/1/08, I am heading into the tar pits with a downgrade of service in a Land of No Competition.
Contrarily, Spammers please rest assured that I have no penis, nor does my girlfriend and we have no desire to have one anywhere within our relationship, whether it be microscopic or gargantuan, fat, and thick. I am sorry that yours is tiny and you have to hawk and consume little blue pills to get your jollies.
If they win, I propose to sue every visitor to the shoppe across the street which installs very loud and very large speaker systems in motor vehicles. I have to listen to the incessant non-stop thump of bass from 9am to 6pm every day. Since these are "public" performances and clearly illegal (lol) I will collect license plate information to turn over directly to the RIAA so that I can be a snitch and survive being sued myself for hearing the public performances.
I'm hoping to clear at least 1 million per incident for my snitching. I should be a billionaire by next Thursday!
Well, I've never seen a broadband provider in the US advertise "unmetered" service. EVER. That's not what you get when you sign the service agreement.
Direct from Comcast AUP:
viii. restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or otherwise disrupt or cause a performance degradation, regardless of intent, purpose or knowledge, to the Service or any Comcast (or Comcast supplier) host, server, backbone network, node or service, or otherwise cause a performance degradation to any Comcast (or Comcast supplier) facilities used to deliver the Service;
Using 100% of your line speed 24/7 all month long will do the above. Not to mention there is one about using their service to download copyrighted content, regardless of performance degredation; you can have your service suspended. Anyone clearing 300GB/month cannot tell me all they download are demos and linux distros. I call Shenanigans to the nth degree on that one.
And for those complaining there is nothing about excessive b/w usage in comcasts AUP, I refer you directly to it: http://www.comcast.net/terms/use.jsp as it is clearly there.
Wow. That means it's going to cost about $47 for each American. These are free, right? No? So, how does this COST the government, then, cause I know darn well I'll get charged 20-50$ for it anyway.
I guess I have a good excuse to not fly or visit National Parks.
In May, a professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio lost a flash drive containing Social Security numbers of 199 former students.
And professors have SS#'s because why? If the school is using them as identifiers, then that is a severe security problem regardless of theft of flash drives.
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Unfortunately, most of the right-wing religious-nut gun-toters are the ones who voted for the ones in office.
I don't like it either, fwiw. It does take away space on the page to try to cram in the existing widgets. Everything feels very cramped now and looks horrible.
htf they would miss the incessant PSAs for it every single commercial break is beyond me. If they're not ready for it, then they don't need to be watching tv as the PSAs have been so insidious as well as the full screen banners about it.
I had a similar problem with a roommate sucking the bandwidth dry on our SDSL line (1.5 both ways) a few years back. I actually thought it was the ISP and called them numerous times trying to resolve the 2000ms+ pings I was getting to every site (at the time it wasn't so simple to see what bw was running through your router). It seemed to "magically" start around 730pm and last well into the evening. After logging into the modem as per my ISP's instructions, I was watching the upstream packets moving at a ridiculous rate so I unplugged his cable. It instantly stopped, so then I knew it was something on his machine. When I approached him about the issue, he claimed he was "only allowing 1 upload at a time", of course unthrottled. I suggested he throttle it to a reasonable amount (1/4 of our bandwidth as there were four of us sharing the connection). He told me to my face he would, but being the vindictive bastard that he was --then put a deadbolt on his door and would leave it running full throttle 10 hours a day while he was at work. So, I'd simply unplug his cable while he was gone. He finally got pissed at me and got his own dedicated DSL line two weeks later.
Long story short, maybe this guy is like my ex-roommate and the op had the discussion already and wants to create his own solution to the problem without it resulting in alternate living conditions.
Nowadays, I throttle everyone else where I currently live to reasonable amounts and block P2P apps and everyone here knows I do exactly that as long as I'm paying the bill.
Only thing is, using the car analogy, it'd be like you can only drive the BMV on the Interstate (Main-stream office applications) and not on the sideroads (typical PC gaming).
I'd happily buy a Mac as soon as I can do what I currently do completely within the confines of MacOSX and not have to use emulation/virtualization and a Windows license.
The basic reason ISP's are targeting bittorrent is simple. 90 to 95% of the traffic is copyright violation.
Sure, there are some legitimate files being served through torrents such as software updates and linux distros, but I think we all know that a majority of the generated traffic is, by definition, illegal (in the U.S.).
I'm sure Usenet is their next target.
Funny. Comcast charges me $3.95 to pay with my credit/debit card.
Well, someone should let Mr. Arnold know that some of us gals do "get it".
Pinball rocks!
Perhaps they should let the entire population vote on whether or not we find something indecent. Sort of like Meta-Moderating on /.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that 99.9% of everything aired I wouldn't have a problem with... except maybe goatse or tubgirl.
This is true for me. I had been using Yahoo! and Yahoo! 360 for blogging/social networking until Yahoo! decided they didn't want to keep running 360 any more and turn it into a junk-fest that they're looking to change in the next two months. I closed my account and moved my blogging to Blogger (Google). Yeah, I could run wordpress directly on my site, but it's too much of a hassle to bother with.
I suppose you can argue that Google is getting "too big for it's britches" but for some strange reason I tend to offer them a bit more trust than Microsoft.
Trade in the TV over 55" in for a 54" one.
Two of my former domains are being "tasted" repeatedly and both are now offering link farms. Neither had any reasonable traffic so I'm not entirely sure what makes them so delicious. It's very annoying truthfully. I'd originally registered them with anonymous registration and when I wanted to renew them, godaddy refused to allow me to not renew the anon without going to their anon service site and specifically requesting it's removal -- except I no longer had the customer id # after 3 years and a computer change. They wanted a fax with 3 pieces of ID (which would have cost me a cab trip for 20 bucks and the faxing charge) Decided it wasn't worth the hassle and let them expire.
Yes, up next on Jobs' list is the iScrew; a $75 screw driver used just for opening up your MacBook Air to swap the battery.
Of course, I think 1.8 million consoles a month is nothing to shake a stick at. Unfortunately, 1.7 million of them are being bought up by eBay whores trying to make a fat profit off them.
Hmm, well, at one time I had three different working ones (I went through 5 total.) After beginning to understand how they liked to blow themselves up, I bought them at yard sales for parts.
Oh, and I had enough pirated software for it that I could have personally filled the Arnold Archive myself.
The original one got me through college. I bought one from another student and all his gear for 50 bucks. Sweet deal. It included one of the white case ones and an original, two floppy drives, ram expansion cart, modem, and a boatload of software (albeit quite a bit of it I already had.) Was fun finding the new stuff.
Within a year after college, unfortunately I became permanently disabled. With the initial settlement, I bought a 486sx-25 (don't laugh.. stop it. I said STOP IT!), and within 6 months, like a proverbial hyena, I sold all my c64 stuff for 50 bucks to a friend. (Quit laughing!) Damn, I regret selling it.
Perhaps instead of "bricking" we should use a lighter, more fluffy term for this, such as "Soap Bubbled" or "Cotton Swabbed" or "Lacy-saddled Pony"... or perhaps just use "fluffed". Yeah... that sounds the best to me.
Sir, I think the computer is fluffed!
Unfortunately, there is absolutely no "competition" in my market, so I will be pretty much screwed at a whopping 6 or 8 meg under Comcrust. DSL through the "phone company" is out of the question for me as that maxes out at 6 meg here for $90/month. I am pretty happy with Insight's service 10/1 plan, but since it's being slurped up by Comcast as of 1/1/08, I am heading into the tar pits with a downgrade of service in a Land of No Competition.
Contrarily, Spammers please rest assured that I have no penis, nor does my girlfriend and we have no desire to have one anywhere within our relationship, whether it be microscopic or gargantuan, fat, and thick. I am sorry that yours is tiny and you have to hawk and consume little blue pills to get your jollies.
Oh yes, ObjectDock is such a hog consuming that .4% cpu cycles. Taskmgr uses more, lets get rid of it.
Wow! Does this mean I can sue everyone who ever makes a disparaging remark about me on the internet?
Cool! I should be a trillionaire by February!
If they win, I propose to sue every visitor to the shoppe across the street which installs very loud and very large speaker systems in motor vehicles. I have to listen to the incessant non-stop thump of bass from 9am to 6pm every day. Since these are "public" performances and clearly illegal (lol) I will collect license plate information to turn over directly to the RIAA so that I can be a snitch and survive being sued myself for hearing the public performances.
I'm hoping to clear at least 1 million per incident for my snitching. I should be a billionaire by next Thursday!
Well, I've never seen a broadband provider in the US advertise "unmetered" service. EVER. That's not what you get when you sign the service agreement.
Direct from Comcast AUP:
viii. restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or otherwise disrupt or cause a performance degradation, regardless of intent, purpose or knowledge, to the Service or any Comcast (or Comcast supplier) host, server, backbone network, node or service, or otherwise cause a performance degradation to any Comcast (or Comcast supplier) facilities used to deliver the Service;
Using 100% of your line speed 24/7 all month long will do the above. Not to mention there is one about using their service to download copyrighted content, regardless of performance degredation; you can have your service suspended. Anyone clearing 300GB/month cannot tell me all they download are demos and linux distros. I call Shenanigans to the nth degree on that one.
And for those complaining there is nothing about excessive b/w usage in comcasts AUP, I refer you directly to it: http://www.comcast.net/terms/use.jsp as it is clearly there.
I have to echo the "his head is too big for the body" statements. It looks hideous, and he appears to need a large dosage of ex-lax.
Wow. That means it's going to cost about $47 for each American. These are free, right? No? So, how does this COST the government, then, cause I know darn well I'll get charged 20-50$ for it anyway.
I guess I have a good excuse to not fly or visit National Parks.
In May, a professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio lost a flash drive containing Social Security numbers of 199 former students. And professors have SS#'s because why? If the school is using them as identifiers, then that is a severe security problem regardless of theft of flash drives.