resopalrabotnick

what servers are you talking about?

you can alsways weigh votes by newer users less than those from older users, so just being mean is less effective. (i know i'm going out on a limb here. but i do expect the longer term members to be less inclined to just be mean than the newer members, as they have more time invested in the place.) anyhow, you can always ignore the rating of a post if the subject suits you. the interesting thing is that something with a boring start turning interesting would get high readworthiness ratings for the later readworthy posts, thereby highlighting them and lifting them above an otherwise uninteresting thread. obviously i'm going to stick by my guns and say it's a good idea no matter what you say. otherwise i wouldn't have put the damned poll up in the first place.

wrong shug. he likely got that speed with an uncapped modem and will never see the light of broadband internet again after getting caught.... i know, it's probably just a cached test, but wth.

the only thing i can think of is that you are either watching drm protected content and it can't connect to the server to authenticate it or there is something else embedded in the video.

sounds like the best idea i've heard all day. but the "community" (retch) won't fold it because they think they can offer stale ideas as a new, improved and free sliced bread. scnr

shuggy, shuggy, shuggy. why?

i still don't get. do you mean the firefox?

i think it was. back then after reaching a certain number of posts you could praise or smite users for their posts. but the score was kept on a per user not per post basis. what i am proposing is to be able to give each and every post a rating of readworthiness. that would enable you to skip longer posts that are just trollish ramblings if you want to miss most of my stuff for example.

How about reinstating a rating system for posts. not neccessarily rating the user just rating the post from 1 to 5 stars, the more stars the more it's worth reading. That way one could find older posts that were noteworthy but one missed due to absenceor whatever by looking for unread posts sorted by rating.

i think that is indeed very good news. xp is good enough for now, microsoft just wants to roll out the next generation and is apparently taking the time and doing it right. while pushing a release back may seem like a bad thing (certainly so publicity-wise) it shows that they don't want to launch an unfinished product. (i'm sure they could launch it right now, and it would work, but it would get the first service pack soon and that would change a lot of things.) besides that they have to make sure that any changes they make to the os don't affect all their apps. i can see why it is difficult to get all that under one hat. the time taken lets one hope that it will be a cleaner cut from previous os generations than the ones preceding it. this step of course makes backwards compatibility more difficult. and unlike sony's ps3 there is no competition on the market for vista so they can take all the time they need to release their new flagship.

the good thing is that usually somebody overwhelmed by technobabble will have the good sense to say WTF?!?!?, causing us to be a little more clear in what we mean.

rom, what are the specs on that thing?

first of all the 2 av's may detect each others signatures. if this hasn't happened so far, you're ok. as for running 2 programs that perform the same function at the same time, even if they don't interfere with one another, just costs you resources for no real gain. you are also wasting money by paying for all those programs updating their definitions.

their ideas are probably the same as the ones the power companies had in implementations all over the world. make some money and who cares if we jam a broad spectrum. in the pdf is a comment on the power companies requesting a lowered standard of emissions from them compared to other services. basically the comment is: and if we lower it for them then what about the others? they will want special treatment too?

probably. except that if you bother shielding the powerlines you might as well put that effort into laying fiber and coax and setting up a decent cable network...

100% wasp

just rubbercoating them wouldn't be enough. you'd have to shield them like a coax line. and then you'd have the problem of the lines getting too hot. the one advantage of unshielded/insulated overland lines is good cooling.

oh, ok. so how is that a problem?

what is an ie page?

you can get an adware free version of real player from the bbc. they licensed it to stream their content and made it a condition that real networks provide them with a non-advertising version. it should still be available on their website.

hubris, as usual. try as they may, humans will never be actually be able to kill the earth. sure, they might be able to eradicate themselvs from the ecosystem and make it uninhabitable for lots of other organisms, but, in the end, something else will always live on. (the smart money is on the cockroaches)

you mean the ones with the slogan: [move][glow=red,2,300]Travel the world! Meet interesting people! ...and kill them![/glow][/move]

firefox, the browser you can trust to bend over to the first company offering it some cash. msie is bad for third party advertisers, ms is too big to be swayed by dinky offers like firefox and aol. that's why google bought into them and is considering sueing microsoft.

congratulations! it's all downhill from here....

well, actually your point about radio transmission over the wire is well made. so is cable internet. but there it's shielded. on powerline, the line catches all the noise from surrounding radio transmissions and other sources, creating a high noise level on the line. the useful signal has to be stronger than that to be read. (obviously) this means that because the line isn't shielded it also transmits that signal as a radio signal into the environment, meaning it far surpasses any existing interference in the area.