LostInSpace

Damn, seems like everyones getting the finger now.

Here's the break down with my provider: (the image is only 91kb) You can only access this speed test if you are a verizon subscriber.

quote:Originally posted by Marvin: Personally, I'm more interested in what Lois looks like ... they never seem to get it right ... except, maybe, Terry Hatcher. Or what's-her-name on Smallville. Jessica Alba.

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: The Houston Chronicle quote: By AUSTIN BAY Oil-producing Alberta might join the United States and instantly find common political ground with Alaska, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma. Canada's struggling Atlantic provinces might find statehood economically attractive and extend the New England coastline. You mean to say that there's a place in the world that doesn't hate America and would not mind joining!? WOW!! From some of the rhetoric around here, I would have thought it would be the last thing any country would contemplate. I know it's just speculation but I find it rather plausable.

Okay, Marvin what say you on this?

256,000=256k 512,000=512k 256,000(256k bits) div 8 = max theoretical byte speed 32,000 (32k bytes). In other words, take A again as the example, you'll be sending 32,000 complete A's in one sec. 512,000(512k bits) div 8 = Max theoretical byte speed 64,000 (64k bytes). You'll be sending 64,000 A's in one sec. The speed the network/modem manufacturers and high speed providers give you is in bits not bytes to make it seem like it's uber speed. They should be listing the byte speed and not the bits. Don't get me wrong it's still fast but seems a lot faster when you use the bit speed.

Very simple response that if the Iraqies wanted saddam out they should have taken things into their own hands. Very simple indeed. The logistics of undertaking that sort of operation is enourmous. I'll give you one example: The United States. We were outclassed and out gunned in the revolutionary war (and not every american was in favor of the war or the split from England). If it wasn't for the help of outside influences, we'd still be under the English Thumb. What's stated about the population taking things into their own hands is naive and under that analogy the U.S. should still be under English control because we didn't have full domestic support or ability to carry it out on our own. If one thinks the body count is high now imagine what it would have been like if a civil war did occur in Iraq between the ones that wanted Saddam out and Saddam's supporters it would have been a massacre in that country. So considering that I'd say it's pretty good over there right now. [ 05-01-2005, 07:02 PM: Message edited by: LostInSpace ]

Techincaly on a 56k modem connection your top speed would be 7kbs (bytes not bits) but that's only on a good day. Other factors must be taken into account like your line reception and internet speed etc.... On most days you will get 5.6kbs. The same holds true for all. bits-----bytes 10mb----1.25mb 3mb-----375k 1.5mb---187k 56k------7k [ 05-01-2005, 03:48 PM: Message edited by: LostInSpace ]

The main speed designation is given in Bits and the actual speed is in bytes. You divide the first number by 8 (8 bit equals 1 byte) 56k for instance is bits per second the 5.6k is bytes per second (8 bits). Another example the letter A is 8 bits. It takes 8 bits to code the A. So when you send the A thru your connection it's sending the A one bit at a time. Binary code: byte : bits A:01000001. Your connection doesn't just send the A but it has to send each of those bits across your connection.

quote:Originally posted by ShoHashi: By downloading the Bitorrent version, I was able to get it in about an hour and a half. I cheated and used the htp link downloaded in 10 min. Yeah the acting is not half bad. You gotta take into consideration that they probably did very few retakes (which cost money) and some of the cast members were eh. Like the Emperors hand and the Emperor. The space sequences were kick s$$ however. But overall very enjoyable and good.

Did anybody download and watch the movie?

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: I have died and gone to hell, I actually agree with Grizzle on something. Somebody, PLEASE, tell me that it isn't so..... Yeah, there's been a lot of agreeing around here lately. This can't be good.

quote:It seems that today's games industry no longer has room for small independent developers wanting to work on innovative and original ideas. Sad but true.

The one thing that worries me, which isn't mentioned, is that those things are big and will carry a lot more people than current aircrafts and one of them coming crashing down will kill that many more people in a single blow.

quote:Originally posted by Gol_Stoan: Lately I have been listening to Heart, Pink Floyd, Rush, and Jethro Tull. I was evidently born a decade too late. Nice choices. Also, try YES and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. By far, YES is my favorite outa all of em.

PilotWeb: A380 maiden flight 'Wednesday'

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Well, thats the word according to the new licensees. Sweet!! Can't wait.

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: I grew up in a house of ONLY women, besides myself. Putting down the seat when I am done is such an ingrained habit, that I don't even realize that I do it. And what I meant, is that the wife and I, have our own bathroom, the kids now have THEIR own bathroom, so ours won't be trashed all the time, with toothpaste art all over the counter and the mirror, and no more water all over our bathroom floor after they get done with a bath. Oh okay, I guess I read into that the wrong way . Yeah, kids sure do make a mess in them bathrooms don't they. I am an anarchist when it when it comes to the toilet seat being up or down. I always leave them up. In fact, I sneak into women's bathrooms and put them seats up. Just kidding. Oh no, I just gave myself an idea. I can see it now being chased out of the bathroom by a bunch of women that look like the monty python troop in their drag swiping me with their hand bags.

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: Yeah baby, a HUGE room for me and the wife, with our OWN bathroom(YES), Great news. As for the bathroom, many a marriage has ended in disaster because of this. Now you never have to worry about whether the toilet seat is up or down when she goes in (why that is such an bloody issue with them I'll never know it goes beyond the psychotic sometimes).

Star Wars Nerds Rejoice. I know I am. I came across this one quite by accident. It's great. Much better than the Star Trek fan made movies. This film was also sanctioned by Lucas. Get it here: Star Wars: Revelation 'Star Wars Revelations' a sophisticated fan film By Tish Wells Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - In the original "Star Wars," the Imperial military leader Grand Moff Tarkin tells head baddie Darth Vader, "The Jedi are extinct; their fire has gone out of the universe." Not for the makers of "Star Wars Revelations," an amateur fan film to be released Monday over the Internet. It's part of a growing video genre produced by devoted viewers and made possible by affordable cameras, computer graphics and editing technologies. All are labors of love, and viewable free since they're based on intellectual property that belongs to the copyright owners, in this case "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and Lucasfilm. "Star Wars Revelations," a 40-minute feature that's sophisticated by fan-film standards, is based on the "Star Wars" universe. Thanks to a solid plot, interesting characters, superb special effects and an unexpected ending, it's accessible even to viewers who can't tell a lightsaber from a flashlight. "Revelations" is a provocative prelude to the May 19 release of the sixth Lucasfilm in the "Star Wars" series, "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith." The fan film picks up on the expectation that the Jedi, the good guys, will fall to their enemies, the Sith, epitomized by black-helmeted Darth Vader. In "Revelations," Vader's Imperial Forces are hunting down escaping Jedi. A former Jedi turned Imperial agent, Zhanna, is pursing an artifact that will help her find and destroy her former comrades. Opposing her is a fugitive Jedi heroine, Taryn Anwar, working through an old friend and smuggler, Declan, and another ex-Jedi, Cade, who has control of the artifact. Taryn and Zhanna vie for the artifact in a series of starship chases and lightsaber battles. "Revelations" lacks the mega-bucks polish of a Lucasfilm production, but it catches the otherworldly excitement of a summer science-fiction blockbuster. Director-actor Shane Felux as Cade, Frank Hernandez as Declan and Gina Hernandez as Taryn deliver smooth performances. The complicated plot moves along briskly despite uneven dialogue and an occasional clunky line. The computer-graphics special effects are retina-blasters. They include a chase through space-based starship construction yards and a night on the town in Corellia city, whose Central Park, minus the orange tint, looks much like New York's. Felux, who maxed out his credit cards and took a home equity loan to make "Revelations," acknowledges that the film "got bigger than even I thought it would. We just never really tried to limit ourselves." It shows.

I don't know if anyone's been following up on this case: SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The woman who claimed she found a well-manicured finger in her bowl of Wendy's chili last month was arrested Thursday night in Las Vegas, police said. quote: Ayala has a litigious history. She has filed claims against several corporations, including a former employer and General Motors, though it is unclear from court records whether she received any money. She said she got $30,000 from El Pollo Loco after her 13-year-old daughter got sick at one of the chain's Las Vegas-area restaurants. El Pollo Loco officials say she did not get a dime.

ROFLMAO!!!

quote:Originally posted by nomad: You are mixing issues. Since when have embargoes ever induced the fall of a dictatorial regime ? Name a single occurrence. It's the population that mainly suffers. I probably don't have to say that to you, with Cuba in front of your nose and Castro laughing at your 10 successive Presidents since 1959... Among this 1 million casualties caused by the UN embargoes, approximately 500'000 correspond to children according to the UNICEF. It's such garbage info, to use your own words, that on May 12th 1996, in the CBS show "60 minutes" Leslie Stahl asked to the Secretary of State Madeleine Albright if the price of 500000 dead children as a result of the sanctions was worth it, she replied, "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it." Now of course, a neocon would probably just have said "I have no information on this"... The fact is that the situation was so bad, that Mr. Denis Halliday, probably another garbage in your views (who still got nominated for the 2001 Nobel Price), former UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq, resigned after 30 years at the UN as protest against the economic sanctions who caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/183499.stm Exactly what I've said before SANCTIONS DON'T WORK!! Best to just go in and get it over with right then and there. We could have saved the citizens of Iraq 10+ years of grief if we took care of saddam once and for all in the first gulf war. The Cuban issue is another joke and the pussy footin around with that. However, Castro does not have much longer to go and when he does the power vacum that's going to occur will probably cause a civil war there (with the different factions vying for control of Cuba) and that's when the U.S. will act behind the scenes. Sure Castro may revel in his time but in the end he will be forgotten as the despot and the flea speck that he is.

quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: Any death is terrible, but when we have cut that death rate in half, and that death rate is FALLING, then I would have to say, we are doing pretty darn good.... Most whole heartedly agreed on that point.

I'm gunna throw my two cents worth in I also suggest you catch a program called Rick Steves' travels in Europe (airs here on the local PBS channels). Even though I don't go anywhere, I love watching his shows they are chock full of info so when I do I know what to do and where to go. He spends most of the time staying at B&B's and showing off a lot of the non-tourist traps the best times of year to go etc... Rick Steves web page quote:With 30 years of travel experience, Rick Steves knows his stuff. Here you'll find thousands of articles on trip planning, a community of travelers, guided tours, and a travel store.