As someone who works from home most of the time, I use less bandwidth while I'm working than when I'm out.
The reason? Whenever I go out I leave the bittorrent going full blast (might as well get my monies worth) and when I get home, if I have to do some more work, I will have to free up some banwidth.
So in my case I use LESS bandwidth the more I work from home.
Imagine for a moment that the Romanian government had done everything in their power to prevent software piracy. The people, most of whom had very little money a few years ago, may well have adopted a different (cheaper/free) OS and who would start paying for M$ software after realising there are some very good, free alternatives.
As it is M$ have secured dependence on their software in yet another emerging market. They may have lost millions of sales in Romania in the short term but in the long term, with a bit of political persuasion from America and the BSA, they will start to reap the rewards.
IT Teacher - Good morning class, today we are going to learn how to install software on our computers. Firstly I want you all to open your web browser and go to http://www.openoffice.org/
OO.org has got to be one of the easiest bits of software I have ever installed, what better place to start teaching kids the basics?
As these stats are for the number of downloads not the GBs downloaded, I can, perhaps, see where they come from.
Personally I can't be bothered to download a whole adult movie, a 5 minute clip is usually sufficient. So let's say, for arguments sake, I download four 5 minute (20-50MB) adult movie clips until I have found what I'm looking for, three times a week that's 12 downloads.
I might only download 1 700-1400MB mainstream movie a week and as I know what I'm getting (using imdb.com and vcdquality.com) before I download it I only download it once.
An obvious answer really but I can think of an animal that can understand and carry out human commands and use its own intuition to become a truly useful animal and do a job that hasn't been superseded by technology (yet), a sheep dog. When you think about it they perform just as complicated a task as mine laying dolphins (or whatever the US Navy has them doing these days).
A working sheep dog can combine instructions from its handler with its own common sense (herding instinct) to control a scattered group of sheep.
I have a border collie (named Orca coincidentally enough) and she knows left from right (by verbal command). She can't name 20 different types of food but she'll let you know if it's not what she wants and she knows how to ask to go outside before she shits on the floor. All together a lot more useful and fun animal to live with than a monkey (or a real orca for that matter).
I don't use Opera, but from what I've heard it's a decent browser that supports standards. I can't be bothered to check out this web page but if it applies standard (w3c) html then Opera *should* display the page well enough to use it. If the page is unusable in a standards compliant browser then it is, yet another, badly designed web page.
A properly marked up web page should work in every standards compliant browser, who cares if the browsers interpretation of the 'box model' or whatever is different, it should still be usable.
If the military were interested in using the most reliable equipment then they'd be computing on Finnish OSs, driving Japanese vehicles, telling the time with Swiss watches, shooting Italian hand guns and Russian assault rifles......but no, it's all about the money in one way or another...
BitTorrent is fastest and is best for new popular stuff, especially large files (movies, apps etc). It also has the advantage that there is a web forum built into the tracker site so you can find out about quality, fake files etc before you DL.
Soulseek is best for music, especially obscure stuff.
eMule kind of fills the gap in the middle for me, it's usually a quicker DL than soulseek but not as wide a variety of music, it is good for other obscure stuff like eBooks, old TV episodes and sports events (stuff that is no longer available on BT) but it is full of fake files (Porn dressed up as blockbuster movies).
Employees who work from home or in remote branch offices often feel disconnected from corporate life
That's exactly why I freelance instead of work for a corporation.
I live in the mountains and can go skiing, paragliding, mountain biking, climbing etc whenever the weather permits and fit my work (about two days a week is enough to pay the rent/bar tab) around my play. Sure, I don't have a lot of money but if I worked full time in London I'd spend it all on going to the mountains on holidays.
I can see footage from members of the public, who were in the right place at the right time, being used by the news networks more and more until they can get their own people in place but in a war zone, Boznia in the nineties for example, I can't imagine many non-professionals hanging around with their mobile phones hoping to make a quick buck.
If a similar situation arose today (even with today's technology and proliferation of mobile communication) the average resident of a war zone would not be able to travel as freely as an accredited, international journalist. Mobile phone networks are unlikely to be operational in those circumstances anyway.
About 5-6(+?) years ago when adsl had just become popular in the UK, cheap, off the shelf firewall/routers weren't available and IPCop was still on IP chains, I bought an old Compaq deskpro off eBay, plugged in an Alcatel clamshell USB modem (the standard at the time) and installed IPCop on it in half a day, working from TFM and a HowTo.
Baring in mind this was my second only Linux install, my first being RedHat on a Dell laptop, and I'm far from a computer nerd, I would agree that this book is only for the computer illiterate or those who don't have the time to RTFM.
Microsoft has the best virtual machine with.NET, the best development tool with Visual Studio and the best access to developers with their MSDN programs.
You don't have to buy the phone/sim card with a credit/debit card, you don't have to top it up with a credit/debit card, just buy top-up cards at the news agent/tobacconist, you can easily pretend you don't speak the language, I'm sure they'll hang up pretty quick if you start babbling in a foreign (made up?) language.
To the local Wikipedians, the first objective is to make it well known among Chinese, to get people to understand the principles of Wikipedia step by step
I don't think the average (western) user of wikipedia understands "the principles of Wikipedia"
Maybe he was trying to prove that he had a lot of time to himself/wasn't rushed. Still, I would have used a photocopier.
I wonder if he had to ask someone to lift the machine while he slipped a ream of paper under it.
using an I.S.P. with good spam/virus/etc filtering
I've been using the same email address/domain for 5+ years and I don't receive more than 5 spam emails a WEEK. I can't remember which spam filter system we use but all mail from public smtp servers is bounced and it uses a blacklist of other smtp servers as well.
If he was diagnosed with the early signs of some type of cancer (leukaemia perhaps?) then surely the effects of the Po210 would cover this up in a post mortem?
Litvinenko killed himself in order to frame Putin, he certainly got the attention of the public before his certain death and then pointed the finger squarely at Putin. IANAD so correct me if I'm wrong but if, hypothetically, he had been diagnosed with the early signs of cancer the symptoms would have been hard to detect in a post mortem after dying in such a way, this would give him a possible motive and he obviously had the opportunity...
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As someone who works from home most of the time, I use less bandwidth while I'm working than when I'm out.
The reason? Whenever I go out I leave the bittorrent going full blast (might as well get my monies worth) and when I get home, if I have to do some more work, I will have to free up some banwidth.
So in my case I use LESS bandwidth the more I work from home.
Ditto off-shore work (except that it's not so 'cool')
Imagine for a moment that the Romanian government had done everything in their power to prevent software piracy. The people, most of whom had very little money a few years ago, may well have adopted a different (cheaper/free) OS and who would start paying for M$ software after realising there are some very good, free alternatives.
As it is M$ have secured dependence on their software in yet another emerging market. They may have lost millions of sales in Romania in the short term but in the long term, with a bit of political persuasion from America and the BSA, they will start to reap the rewards.
IT Teacher - Good morning class, today we are going to learn how to install software on our computers. Firstly I want you all to open your web browser and go to http://www.openoffice.org/
OO.org has got to be one of the easiest bits of software I have ever installed, what better place to start teaching kids the basics?
The next generation will be able to fly up stairs.
As these stats are for the number of downloads not the GBs downloaded, I can, perhaps, see where they come from.
Personally I can't be bothered to download a whole adult movie, a 5 minute clip is usually sufficient. So let's say, for arguments sake, I download four 5 minute (20-50MB) adult movie clips until I have found what I'm looking for, three times a week that's 12 downloads.
I might only download 1 700-1400MB mainstream movie a week and as I know what I'm getting (using imdb.com and vcdquality.com) before I download it I only download it once.
Result:
1 mainstream movie download:12 pr0n downloads
but averaging out the file sizes
~1050MB movie:~420MB pr0n.
An obvious answer really but I can think of an animal that can understand and carry out human commands and use its own intuition to become a truly useful animal and do a job that hasn't been superseded by technology (yet), a sheep dog. When you think about it they perform just as complicated a task as mine laying dolphins (or whatever the US Navy has them doing these days).
A working sheep dog can combine instructions from its handler with its own common sense (herding instinct) to control a scattered group of sheep.
I have a border collie (named Orca coincidentally enough) and she knows left from right (by verbal command). She can't name 20 different types of food but she'll let you know if it's not what she wants and she knows how to ask to go outside before she shits on the floor. All together a lot more useful and fun animal to live with than a monkey (or a real orca for that matter).
...all night last Saturday until about 8 o'clock Sunday morning. Now I've got a stinking cold.
I don't use Opera, but from what I've heard it's a decent browser that supports standards. I can't be bothered to check out this web page but if it applies standard (w3c) html then Opera *should* display the page well enough to use it. If the page is unusable in a standards compliant browser then it is, yet another, badly designed web page.
A properly marked up web page should work in every standards compliant browser, who cares if the browsers interpretation of the 'box model' or whatever is different, it should still be usable.
If the military were interested in using the most reliable equipment then they'd be computing on Finnish OSs, driving Japanese vehicles, telling the time with Swiss watches, shooting Italian hand guns and Russian assault rifles... ...but no, it's all about the money in one way or another...
BitTorrent is fastest and is best for new popular stuff, especially large files (movies, apps etc). It also has the advantage that there is a web forum built into the tracker site so you can find out about quality, fake files etc before you DL.
Soulseek is best for music, especially obscure stuff.
eMule kind of fills the gap in the middle for me, it's usually a quicker DL than soulseek but not as wide a variety of music, it is good for other obscure stuff like eBooks, old TV episodes and sports events (stuff that is no longer available on BT) but it is full of fake files (Porn dressed up as blockbuster movies).
How many cheeses are sold without a fondue set?
How many escargots are sold without garlic?
Incidentally, you can buy escargot shells without the snails here in France, go figure...
That's exactly why I freelance instead of work for a corporation.
I live in the mountains and can go skiing, paragliding, mountain biking, climbing etc whenever the weather permits and fit my work (about two days a week is enough to pay the rent/bar tab) around my play. Sure, I don't have a lot of money but if I worked full time in London I'd spend it all on going to the mountains on holidays.
I can see footage from members of the public, who were in the right place at the right time, being used by the news networks more and more until they can get their own people in place but in a war zone, Boznia in the nineties for example, I can't imagine many non-professionals hanging around with their mobile phones hoping to make a quick buck.
If a similar situation arose today (even with today's technology and proliferation of mobile communication) the average resident of a war zone would not be able to travel as freely as an accredited, international journalist. Mobile phone networks are unlikely to be operational in those circumstances anyway.
but the Scientologists had (have?) a Watchdog Committee and Ethics Officers and we can all trust them now can't we...
About 5-6(+?) years ago when adsl had just become popular in the UK, cheap, off the shelf firewall/routers weren't available and IPCop was still on IP chains, I bought an old Compaq deskpro off eBay, plugged in an Alcatel clamshell USB modem (the standard at the time) and installed IPCop on it in half a day, working from TFM and a HowTo.
Baring in mind this was my second only Linux install, my first being RedHat on a Dell laptop, and I'm far from a computer nerd, I would agree that this book is only for the computer illiterate or those who don't have the time to RTFM.
That'll be why LAMP is so unpopular on the
You don't have to buy the phone/sim card with a credit/debit card,
you don't have to top it up with a credit/debit card, just buy top-up cards at the news agent/tobacconist,
you can easily pretend you don't speak the language, I'm sure they'll hang up pretty quick if you start babbling in a foreign (made up?) language.
I don't think the average (western) user of wikipedia understands "the principles of Wikipedia"
Maybe he was trying to prove that he had a lot of time to himself/wasn't rushed. Still, I would have used a photocopier. I wonder if he had to ask someone to lift the machine while he slipped a ream of paper under it.
I've been using the same email address/domain for 5+ years and I don't receive more than 5 spam emails a WEEK. I can't remember which spam filter system we use but all mail from public smtp servers is bounced and it uses a blacklist of other smtp servers as well.
But I thought Paris was like an Ubergeek, surely she couldn't have let someone hack her mobile!?!
If he was diagnosed with the early signs of some type of cancer (leukaemia perhaps?) then surely the effects of the Po210 would cover this up in a post mortem?
Here's a conspiracy theory for ya:
Litvinenko killed himself in order to frame Putin, he certainly got the attention of the public before his certain death and then pointed the finger squarely at Putin. IANAD so correct me if I'm wrong but if, hypothetically, he had been diagnosed with the early signs of cancer the symptoms would have been hard to detect in a post mortem after dying in such a way, this would give him a possible motive and he obviously had the opportunity...
All complete speculation of course.
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