I'm in rural Wisconsin. We don't get nearly that speed, but the 60GB cap seems awefully low.

As an example, I watch maybe three to four hours of streamed TV a night and use up maybe 3GB a day doing it. Everything else I do (email, web, whatever, is nothing compared to the streaming), and the streaming is always at its lowest bit rate due to speed limitations, but I'd consistently go over the 60GB cap if it were placed on me.

If I were in a city or heavily popluated area that offered higher speed, you can bet I'd easily hit 200GB a month, and probably find a way to hit 300GB, with file syncing, etc., which, again, I limit due to the slow speed here.

I see a lot of participation with the photography community within G+ - something I don't really see on Facebook, although my FB set of friends is pretty small, and I know all of them in real life.

Just go to G+, click on "What's Hot" and look at all the activity. There really is a lot of activity going on, just not necessarily the same interests that most people have.

So I have a little story of my own about using old technology (returning to old technology, actually).

I have a cheap knock-off android tablet from China that I managed to bork trying to install a newer ROM on it. So it's been out of commission while I figurre out how to get it back to working condition. Enter and old Zaurus sl-5600 that I've had lying around for the better part of a decade. Because I like to do light surfing/check email/read from bed first thing in the morning, I charged it up and started to use it again.

First off, it still holds a decent charge with the original battery, and that's after sitting in a drawer for most of these years and going through extreme temperature changes in an unheated cabin. Any newer battery would have exploded after having gone through those temperature changes.

This thing has an ancient version of QTopia on it (1.5.4), an old Linux 2.4.18 kernel, and an ancient Opera browser (7) on it. While the software is no great shakes, it still does a respectable job at what it was meant to do. Actually, come to think of it, the PDF reader is better than any PDF reader I've found for android, so that's one piece of software that still outperforms newer tech.

But what really impresses me about it is the hardware. I can't help but ask why a nearly decade-old piece of hardware can run circles around a year old piece of junk out of China. This thing can actually be used outside in sunlight. The screen is actually more responsive to touch that any modern resistive screen I've touched, stylus or not.

It's made me really appreciate how much better made older hardware was/is. Granted, it was expensive when it came out, but that price shines through in the hardware build quality. When I originallly purchased it, I would have never thought I'd be using it nearly a decade later.

You joke, but actually, each light array has a small 6x6 inch panel that your could mount either outside or hang in a window (the power cord from panel to battery pack is 16 ft. long). They provide enough energy to store in the enclosed small battery packs to last about 12 hours a charge. It's really not a bad solution to the problem.

In any case, energy is energy, whether it's generated at a coal plant and then distributed or directly to a battery pack for later use.

My point was really that, while they're currentlly not the most attractive lighting, that won't always be the case - they can be made fashionable as well as usable.

That's exactly what is being done now with many of these "shed' lights. I purchased a couple of these that have 20 LEDs inside a casing that has a highly reflective back (they're attached to small solar panels) for my cabin, since our electricity is quite prone to outages from all the thunder/lightning storms we have in Northern Wisconsin. Each one is enough to illuminate a 10x12 room on their own. I can read comfortably with just this light from pretty mch anywhere in the room.

They're not the prettiest lights, but I built a wood/translucent plastic shade, to make them at least a bit better looking. They also come with their own remote control switch so you can turn them on/off as you would any other sconce or ceiling light.

It's only a matter of time before some decent designs start coming out for these things.

Confusing language. Are you saying that this happens in OpenOffice or LibreOffice? I use Calc/LibreOffice all the time to import tab-delimited files with no trouble. Writer's not involved at all.

I use the Disconnect plugin for Firrefox. It gives me a button on the nav bar to turn on/off tracking on not just FB, but Google. Twitter, etc.

But do they now? I know that many of the results I get now are useless.

Truer than you know.

For any current show, we've always been able to go directly to the network's website and stream episodes. Hell, Hulu offers shows from the CW, but they're a week behind what's on CW's own site. Do they think people are just that stupid that they're unable to go elsewhere? Especially when the very same networks listed on Hulu make it so easy to find shows on their own sites.

Or, if you don't like Unity, just install Gnome Shell. It's pretty much the way forward as far as Gnome is concerned, so we might as well at least become familiar with it, instead of bitching about how different it is.

Personally, I've learned to really like it and have become quite productive using it.