I use Opera 12 also. I like it for its incompatibility -- it basically warns me when sites are up to something, Agreed about the crazy email folders -- this also impacts RSS feeds, so I have thousands of folders with one small file in each. Maddening. I use Yahoo email but don't pay them the $19. After a rocky bit these past few years, Yahoo email seems to have settled down and...touch wood...I actually like it.

I've had one of these for decades. Engineers don't make mistrakes.

There are all kinds of phones that work when the power is out. We have ATT & Uniden models here at present. The Telcos feed power with their signal -- if your phone doesn't need a power cord, it will work. I think I just saved your house foundation about 10 pounds. YW.

I've used Eudora for 15 or 20 years (lost track). And CuteFTP, v2.8 for about as long. And Word for DOS since v2. And then there is LViewPro v1b.

Ok, I downloaded NetSpeedMonitor and ran some tests.

Netflix on "auto" quality settings, watching "Weeds" for a minute, translates to 60 GB/month (per 1 hr/day). We quickly dialed that back to the middle setting.

YouTube is about one-tenth of that, for regular quality video. HD was triple the regular amount (but it will depend on what you watch). So, 6 GB/month (per hour watched/day) for standard quality. 18 GB/month (per hour watched/day) for High Def. YMMV.

In Sandvineâ(TM)s 2014 Global Internet Phenomena Report, the group found that people exhibiting cord-cutter behavior -- those people who had a significantly high amount of streaming media consumption -- the average consumption amount was 213GB per month.

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That is our household in a nutshell -- cord cutters. The teens watch zero TV. Same for my spouse. I use TV mainly for sports, and new Top Gear episodes. No ISO downloads, no torrent use at all.

Honestly, I'm a bit surprised by our usage. I'll probably install some program to track it for a while and figure out who and what are the biggest users.

Netflix (one person) and two teens tubing, a lot.

Riiiiight

From that page, "Google says that the video site reaches almost one out of every two people on the Internet."

"one of every two" -- so, every other household uses YouTube. When it hits 51%, that would mean the average household uses YouTube.

Comcast's "20 or 25" as an "average" figure is...unlikely.

And there is the matter of neutrino oscillation, which could in itself nullify these results.

You missed one. The number one bandwidth application on the Internet. YouTube.

FWIW, our household of four uses an average of 350 GB a month. Despite Comcast's claim that the average account uses 20 to 25 GB a month.

You could edit your civilized +5 post, turning it into a troll fest. Yet still having the same +5 rating. To deal with that, /. would have to throw out the ratings for any edited post. Then those mod points would be wasted. More mod points would be needed. Users edit their posts once a minute. SkyNet would be the result.

A speed limit, with the 50GB for $10 penalties being repeated speeding tickets.

Just a thought but if you don't need to access the Internet from your Windows partition, you can just disconnect your network cable when you boot to Windows. I have a couple of machines that are like that -- workhorses that don't need the update treadmill.

I came up with a similar theory. Except I think they then rolled them up the side of the partially completed pyramid (since it was covered with a white limestone fascade).

If they'll do it to the cast of ST:TNG, they'll do it to anyone.