So why isn't anyone doing the same in a car? That would be the best hybrid setup...

Running 100kV on poles where the wires are several feet appart is not the same thing as running the same when the wires as next to each other...

We don't know why, but everybody within a 5-mile radius is having wifi problems and is dying of cancer :)

When I can have 300 miles range in 5 minutes (which most gasoline cars can do), it will work, Heck let's change that to 10 minutes and it will probably still be ok. The problems with fast charging: it reduces battery life for one, and even if that gets fixed somehow, that's a lot of energy in a short amount of time being driven into the battery (battery heats up, heats the car, as mentionned in a previous post.)

What about a defective battery? (you know they're gonna cut corners and buy them from China) charge car, batttery explodes killing the driver and passengers...

A hybrid makes more sense, would make even more as a series hybrid with a diesel generator...

I take it you've never seen what kind of equipment is located at a headend. Yes the wires between the pole and the home are mostly the same, but fiber replaced coax on a lot of the infrastructure (one of the reason it's called an optical node).

Same goes for POTS

It's only a pissing contest.

They're giving us faster and faster speeds, but what about the quotas? We're getting 50GB/month in Montreal from our beloved duopoly. Same goes for cellular. First GPRS, then Edge, then 3G and now 4G/LTE, yet can't use it because the caps are ridiculous (still 6G here for around 80$/month)

That OS is 13-14 years old...

It won't stop working (well maybe the activation thingy), you just won't get any kind of security updates, and in some time, it will be unsupported by security software (kinda like 98)

I still have a 98SE machine running (for old games that don't work on modern windows versions), but with some caveats

1- It's not hooked up to the network, and will never be
2- Older hardware will not have driver updates
3- Transferring files is done via DVD-R or CD-R (because no, it won't be hooked up, and no, I don't want to install USB mass storage drivers on it)

The same can be done with XP (activating it might be fun without an internet connection, but I'm pretty sure MS could release a little program that activates XP (but probably won't))

I'm glad not to be working for an ISP, it's gonna be a nightmare for both customers and CSRs when the machines get infected

Ever wondered why our dentition is the way it is? Because we are omnivores, meaning we *have* to eat meat also. We are not built to eat only plants.

Depends on the *quantity*. Wine is actually good for the cardiovascular system in reasonable quantities...

Looks very nice, will try once weather is a little warmer. Thanks for sharing

Yup, we have a really good one in Quebec, called Du Bleuet

But the burnt part is the one that tastes good. Seriously, I don;t even bother with propane BBQ grills, I only use Charcoals because of the taste, the smell, the sound (the whole *experience* if you wish)

"If I post an image, I'm lucky if anybody looks at it. If I post the text of the error, there is a good chance that somebody will stumble on it using Google and actually make some use of it."

^-THIS!

While on the subject, any way to get people to stop doing how-tos with video? I can't print a video

So? people don't care, as long as they can give them their money. As long as people have their shiny things and reality tv, they won't mind being abused by corporations.

I'm pretty sure the death count wasn't nearly as high, but good point...