I would have responded more quickly... but it took me about 3 minutes to track down the words I could copy and paste to form this.

No... no it's not.

Just because a large portion of the world has shitty internet, doesn't mean everyone should have shitty internet. It's only funny in the sad/pathetic/hopeless sort of way... just because they let it happen doesn't mean we do. If everyone else drank urine, and we drank water... we'd protest when people started pissing in our faces too...

I'm fine with universally limited bandwidth, ie: Xk/s down, Yk/s up... but throttling specific uses of it is retarded... from 00:00 to 18:00 I can download "normal" things (HTTP, etc) at 1.7MB/s (which also used to apply to torrents), torrents are limited to about 350k/s... between 18:00 and 00:00 it's limited to 120k/s... which isn't terrible, however whichever way my ISP chose to implement it, fucks up everything else at the same time (even if I haven't downloaded any torrents), it turns my cable connection into noisy WiFi... websites that take a few attempts to connect, occasional messenger disconnects, etc. It was "unlimited" for years, till about 2 weeks ago.

I wouldn't have much of a problem with that either, except they still charge the same price for basically half the connection. No real alternatives either except to rent a higher package from the same ISP (to get speeds that the current plan says it provides), or switch the ISP which also means switching the connection to WiFi, or Satellite... both of which are useless, regardless of whatever arbitrary speed in some other country may be.

Well, you would be falling... likely not flying. So yes, if falling excites you, then run with it... no need to worry about the inevitable, it will be quick and rather painless anyways.

Assuming the building, or the height at which you began falling is tall enough that it would kill you... if you are sort of falling/stumbling down the side of a pyramid, it would probably be a good idea to attempt to prevent yourself from falling further, since there's the possibility you will live, but not be happy that you did if you just "go with the flow" in that case.

No... where he lives, once a phone dies, it starts floating towards heaven.

His idea is to snag them while still around ceiling level, take them apart, and build a new phone out of their remains.

Assignment... people stopped caring about wildfires, so it's just being replaced with Global Warming...

Recent reports state that Global Warming is spreading across Russia, some people are worried this years Global Warming season in California could result in the most Global Warmings to date.

Pretty much, it's more like facial hue... even the best "watch dogs" are bound to eventually get bored with their duties since there's no real, or immediate threat. If they have some sort of quota, even if it's just to "look busy", they'll just pick people at random with whatever bias they have (sex, race, age, etc). Then there's the ones that have a sort of ego/erotic desire to dominate, they couldn't give a damn about facial cues, they'll come up with whatever reason necessary to go f**k with "that person!"

Generally the only time people really pay attention is when they need to, when was that exactly? I'm not even sure if 9/11 qualifies, especially since apparently there was a whole swarm of people... "19"... if there was one hijacker/assassin/etc, it might work... if there is 2 or 3... that aren't walking in the same group, it's bound to fail... if one gets caught, everyone flips out and either runs towards, or away from this person... ignores everyone else... the one guy is arrested etc... everyone feels safe, "omg what if?", laughs, jokes about it... meanwhile the other 2 going about their intended plan...

Where are you getting your sizes from? If these are back-ups/archives, then why not compress them? Even this topic (404 comments as of posting) saved as HTML (no external files) is 671kb... making about 13MB's per day... but if it's Zipped, it's only 100kb, which means you could fit about 15 stories per floppy.

If you start with just the plain-text... 850 chars, is about 946bytes round that up to 1024, for formatting/username, etc...
1024 * 400 * 20 = about 7.8 MB
1024 bytes + Zip = 129bytes ... ..
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Anyways, 1 day would be about 0.94MB... so if you're lucky, you could probably fit 2 days on one floppy... or one day, plus the articles themselves.

On top of those major changes, they are pushing Windows at the moment because of the EU Vs. Microsoft thing, where in March Microsoft will have to add the "Choose Your Browser" dialog, and Opera wants 10.5 to be on that list, not 10.1.

Actually, according to DragonFly, over an average of 5 searches each:

10.5: 538ms
10.1: 625ms

Guess my internal clock is a bit slow, and that's just the GETs, doesn't measure rendering speed.

I can't actually time this, but there is a noticeable difference, granted I only did a single test in each browser... if I had to make up numbers...

Opera 10.5: 0.7 seconds
Opera 10.10: 1.0 seconds
Chromium 4.0: 1.2 seconds
IExplorer8: 1.5 seconds
Safari 4.0: 1.6 seconds
Firefox 3.6 B5: 1.7 seconds

Though, Safari actually "looks" slower than Firefox because Firefox starts rendering sooner, whereas Safari waits for the full page then displays. For what it's worth, DL 5Mb/UL 1Mb connection... less than a second difference between them all, but for a lot of people that adds up, it's like a little nagging voice that eventually turns into frustration, especially when a website isn't what you were hoping for.

The actual speed with which the browser GETs and renders a website is probably close to the last reason why Opera is my preferred browser, however, it is the main reason why Chromium is my secondary browser in tandem with the fact that it also starts about as quick as Opera, so I can quickly test something outside of Opera without having to go make coffee while it does so.

Yes, but in this case that's irrelevant... if you have the source to whatever software they are using on these servers, you still wouldn't be able to do anything about it, especially without the DB of licenses, you could tell it to look elsewhere, but it still wouldn't find it. Pretend it's YouTube, and forget about open/proprietary ranting... you could clone the site, and servers, but not the content.

It would be like, editing the source code to your web browser when you can't get online, and "fixing it" by simply removing all the code that tries to connect to the internet. Do you get your soldering iron out when your TV loses it's signal, and try to rewire it to run off AM signals through your power lines?

I'll try to be more redundant next time...

Or, you could watch GoldenEye.

Also, for those that are not visually impaired, a Satellite View (2.6MB) and an Airplane View (3.5 MB)

"I think that the choice of playback software or drivers can also affect fidelity of the sound."

Indeed, pick any two media players that don't use the same decoder, they will both sound slightly different. Plus most default to 16bit, when the media might be 24bit (including mp3), or 32bit for FLAC, and others.

Driver implementation matters as well, I use the same drivers for my audio card for Windows XP (which the drivers were designed for), and Win7, but they both sound different, Win7 is slightly softer sounding, in XP it sounds a bit more over-driven, can't really compare between Linux distros as they almost never use the same drivers, and I usually don't bother to play with it, if it has sound, that's good enough.

I think any "optimized for metal" sound in Linux might be due to a more direct interaction with the hardware, which is great if you have hardware to support it, not if it's generic.

Simply use Wite-Out, or Liquid Cover-Up, doesn't matter what button, as long as it's white.

They sell placation of the buyers ego.